Fatty Acid Oxidation Is Essential for Egg Production by the Parasitic Flatworm Schistosoma mansoni

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Stanley Ching Cheng ^a,b   Freitas, Tori C ^b   Amiel, Eyal ^b   Everts, Bart ^a,b   Pearce, Erika L ^a,b   Lok, James B ^c   Pearce, Edward J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE I; FAT DROPLET; FATTY ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; COENZYME A LIGASES; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIA; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 84868152539     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002996     Document Type: Article

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