Volutin granules of eimeria parasites are acidic compartments and have physiological and structural characteristics similar to acidocalcisomes

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 416-423

  Soares Medeiros, Lia Carolina ^a   Gomes, Fabio ^a   MacIel, Luis Renato Maia ^c   Seabra, Sergio Henrique ^d   Docampo, Roberto ^e   Moreno, Silvia ^e   Plattner, Helmut ^f   Hentschel, Joachim ^f   Kawazoe, Urara ^g   Barrabin, Hector ^a   De Souza, Wanderley ^a,b   Damatta, Renato Augusto ^c   Miranda, Kildare ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Zona Oeste Estadual University   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acidocalcisome; Eimeria acervulina; Eimeria tenella; elemental mapping; vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase; volutin granule

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

DRUG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; OSCILLATION; OSMOREGULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REACTION KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; EIMERIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EIMERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EIMERIA; EIMERIA ACERVULINA; EIMERIA TENELLA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 80053186828     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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