BCKDH: The Missing Link in Apicomplexan Mitochondrial Metabolism Is Required for Full Virulence of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium berghei

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Oppenheim, Rebecca D ^a   Creek, Darren J ^b,c,d   Macrae, James I ^b,e   Modrzynska, Katarzyna K ^f   Pino, Paco ^a   Limenitakis, Julien ^a   Polonais, Valerie ^a   Seeber, Frank ^g   Barrett, Michael P ^c   Billker, Oliver ^f   McConville, Malcolm J ^b   Soldati Favre, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; TOXOPLASMA;

MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84905392255     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004263     Document Type: Article

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