Trypanosome letm1 protein is essential for mitochondrial potassium homeostasis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 26914-26925

  Hashimi, Hassan ^a   McDonald, Lindsay ^a,b   Stříbrná, Eva ^a   Lukeš, Julius ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; POTASSIUM HOMEOSTASIS; RNAI SILENCING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

PROTEINS;

MITOCHONDRIA;

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN LETM1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

BIOENERGETICS; LETM1; MITOCHONDRIA; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; TRANSLATION; TRYPANOSOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84884181926     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.495119     Document Type: Article

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