Tocopherol Biosynthesis in (.) Promastigotes

Overview

Journal FEBS Open Bio

Specialty Biology

Date 2019 Apr 16

PMID 30984548

Citations 5

Authors

Jose Mario F Balanco

Rodrigo A C Sussmann

Ignasi B Verdaguer

Heloisa B Gabriel

Emilia A Kimura

Alejandro M Katzin

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Abstract

Database: The amino acid sequence of a conserved hypothetical protein [Leishmania mexicana MHOM/GT/2001/U1103] has been deposited in GenBank (CBZ28005.1).

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