The threonine degradation pathway of the Trypanosoma brucei procyclic form: The main carbon source for lipid biosynthesis is under metabolic control

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 114-129

  Millerioux, Yoann ^a   Ebikeme, Charles ^a   Biran, Marc ^a   Morand, Pauline ^a   Bouyssou, Guillaume ^b   Vincent, Isabel M ^c   Mazet, Muriel ^a   Riviere, Loïc ^d   Franconi, Jean Michel ^a   Burchmore, Richard J S ^c   Moreau, Patrick ^b   Barrett, Michael P ^c   Bringaud, Frédéric ^a  

^a CNRS University Bordeaux Segalen   (France)

^b University Victor Segalen   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; THREONINE; THREONINE 3 DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LIPOGENESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PEPCK GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

HEXAPODA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ACETATES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSE; LIPID METABOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; REVERSE GENETICS; THREONINE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84884702027     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12351     Document Type: Article

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