In this review the main features of the mitochondria of aerobic parasitic protists are discussed. While the best characterized organelles are by far those of kinetoplastid flagellates and Plasmodium, we also consider amoebae Naegleria and Acanthamoeba, a ciliate Ichthyophthirius and related lineages. The simplistic view of the mitochondrion as just a power house of the cell has already been abandoned in multicellular organisms and available data indicate that this also does not apply for protists. We discuss in more details the following mitochondrial features: genomes, post-transcriptional processing, translation, biogenesis of iron-sulfur complexes, heme metabolism and the electron transport chain. Substantial differences in all these core mitochondrial features between lineages are compatible with the view that aerobic protists harbor organelles that are more complex and flexible than previously appreciated.

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• editace RNA MeSH
• elektronový transportní řetězec metabolismus   MeSH
• genom mikrobiální * MeSH
• hem metabolismus   MeSH
• kyslík metabolismus   MeSH
• mitochondriální ribozomy metabolismus   MeSH
• mitochondrie genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• paraziti genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• replikace DNA MeSH
• RNA genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• síra metabolismus   MeSH
• strukturální variace genomu MeSH
• železo metabolismus   MeSH
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