Aerobic kinetoplastid flagellate Phytomonas does not require heme for viability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3808-3813

  Kořený, Luděk ^a,b   Sobotka, Roman ^b,c   Kovářová, Julie ^a,b   Gnipová, Anna ^a,d   Flegontov, Pavel ^a,b   Horváth, Anton ^d   Oborník, Miroslav ^a,b,c   Ayala, Francisco J ^e   Lukeš, Julius ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochromes; Protist; Respiration; Sterols

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; HEME; HEMOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EUKARYOTE; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FLAGELLATE; GENOME; KINETOPLASTIDA; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHYTOMONAS; PHYTOMONAS SERPENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ERGOSTEROL; FATTY ACIDS; HEME; KINETOPLASTIDA; LANOSTEROL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; PORPHYRINS; STEROLS; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PHYTOMONAS; PHYTOMONAS SERPENS; PROTISTA;

EID: 84857929394     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201089109     Document Type: Article

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