Vitamin B6 generated by obligate symbionts is critical for maintaining proline homeostasis and fecundity in tsetse flies

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5844-5853

  Michalkova, Veronika ^a,b   Benoit, Joshua B ^a,c   Weiss, Brian L ^a   Attardo, Geoffrey M ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; MAINTENANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA; VITAMINS;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION; PROLINE LEVELS; PYRIDOXAL PHOSPHATES; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SHORT INTERFERING RNA (SIRNA);

BIOSYNTHESIS;

FECUNDITY; HOMEOSTASIS; LACTATION; METABOLISM; PARASITE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; RNA; SYMBIONT; TSETSE FLY; VITAMIN; YEAST;

ALANINE-GLYOXYLATE TRANSAMINASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; PROLINE; PYRIDOXINE;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLOSSINIDAE; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOMEOSTASIS; PROLINE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSAMINASES; TSETSE FLIES; VITAMIN B 6; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 84906336169     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01150-14     Document Type: Article

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