Mitochondrial protein import pathways are functionally conserved among eukaryotes despite compositional diversity of the import machineries

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 393, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 513-524

  Eckers, Elisabeth ^a   Cyrklaff, Marek ^a   Simpson, Larry ^b   Deponte, Marcel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

kinetoplastid parasites; Leishmania tarentolae; mitochondria; protein transport

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENOME; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOKONTA; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; YEAST;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LEISHMANIA; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA TARENTOLAE;

EID: 84861406724     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2011-0255     Document Type: Article

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