The direct route: a simplified pathway for protein import into the mitochondrion of trypanosomes
- Schneider, André Department of Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bursać, Dejan Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, Australia - Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Lithgow, Trevor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Melbourne, Australia - Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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11.01.2008
Published in:
- Trends in Cell Biology. - 2008, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 12-18
English
Trypanosoma brucei is a unicellular eukaryote that causes the deadly human African trypanosomiasis (‘sleeping sickness’) in humans. The parasite has a complicated lifestyle, it developmentally changes aspects of its mitochondrial function as it alternates from forms in the tsetse fly to forms adapted for life in the human bloodstream. The single mitochondrion found in each trypanosome has to be duplicated precisely in each round of the cell cycle in order for parasites to replicate, and this depends on the import of proteins from the cytosol. Here we review what is known about the mitochondrial protein import pathway in T. brucei, how it compares with the process in humans, and how the distinguishing features seen in T. brucei and humans promise new understanding of the mitochondrial protein import process in all eukaryotes.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 8842
- DOI 10.1016/j.tcb.2007.09.009
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300514
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