Probing the Metabolic Network in Bloodstream-Form Trypanosoma brucei Using Untargeted Metabolomics with Stable Isotope Labelled Glucose

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Creek, Darren J ^a   Mazet, Muriel ^b   Achcar, Fiona ^c   Anderson, Jana ^c   Kim, Dong Hyun ^d   Kamour, Ruwida ^e   Morand, Pauline ^b,i   Millerioux, Yoann ^b   Biran, Marc ^b   Kerkhoven, Eduard J ^f   Chokkathukalam, Achuthanunni ^c   Weidt, Stefan K ^c   Burgess, Karl E V ^c   Breitling, Rainer ^g   Watson, David G ^h   Bringaud, Frédéric ^b   Barrett, Michael P ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^f CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVIC ACID; SUCCINIC ACID; GLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GLYCOLYSIS; LIPOGENESIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOMICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY; SUCCINIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 84926451743     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004689     Document Type: Article

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