Addendum to: Trypanosoma brucei tryparedoxin, a thioredoxin-like protein in African trypanosomes (FEBS 20556)
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Depletion of the thioredoxin homologue tryparedoxin impairs antioxidative defence in African trypanosomes.
In trypanosomes, the thioredoxin-type protein TXN (tryparedoxin) is a multi-purpose oxidoreductase that is involved in the detoxification of hydroperoxides, the synthesis of DNA precursors and the replication of the kinetoplastid DNA. African trypanosomes possess two isoforms that are localized in the cytosol and in the mitochondrion of the parasites respectively. Here we report on the biologic...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01215-0