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1991 • 506 citations

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1993 • 448 citations

Evolution of the Structure of Ferredoxin Based on Living Relics of Primitive Amino Acid Sequences

1966 • 447 citations

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1988 • 312 citations

Hydrogenosomes in the rumen fungus Neocallimastix patriciarum

1986 • 192 citations

Metabolism of Entamoeba histolytica Schaudinn, 1903

1985 • 191 citations

Pyrophosphate‐dependent phosphofructokinase, an anaerobic glycolytic enzyme?

1991 • 170 citations

Energy metabolism of the anaerobic protozoon Giardia lamblia

1980 • 167 citations

The biology of free-living anaerobic ciliates

1991 • 161 citations

An energy-conserving pyruvate-to-acetate pathway in Entamoeba histolytica. Pyruvate synthase and a new acetate thiokinase.

1977 • 157 citations

Partial phylogeny of the unicellular eukaryotes based on rapid sequencing of a portion of 28S ribosomal RNA.

1988 • 145 citations

Hydrogenosomes in the rumen protozoon Dasytricha ruminantium Schuberg

1981 • 127 citations

Molecular analysis of the hydrogenosomal ferredoxin of the anaerobic protist Trichomonas vaginalis.

1990 • 107 citations

Purification and characterization of pyruvate: ferredoxin oxidoreductase from the anaerobic protozoon Trichomonas vaginalis

1987 • 95 citations

Clostridial pyruvate oxidoreductase and the pyruvate-oxidizing enzyme specific to nitrogen fixation in Klebsiella pneumoniae are similar enzymes.

1987 • 95 citations

Analysis of sequence homologies in plant and bacterial pyruvate phosphate dikinase, enzyme I of the bacterial phospoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system and other PEP-utilizing enzymes. Identification of potential catalytic and regulatory motifs

1990 • 92 citations

Hydrogenosomes in Trichomonas vaginalis

1975 • 80 citations

Archamoebae: the ancestral eukaryotes?

1991 • 77 citations

Biochemistry and Metabolism of Giardia

1989 • 71 citations

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1988 • 61 citations

Isolation and characterization of Trichomonas vaginalis ferredoxin

1984 • 53 citations

How useful is the energy in inorganic pyrophosphate?

1976 • 51 citations

Trichomonads Parasitic in Humans.

1990 • 51 citations

Presence of a fructose-2,6-bisphosphate-insensitive pyrophosphate: fructose-6-phosphate phosphotransferase in the anaerobic protozoa Tritrichomonas foetus, Trichomonas vaginalis and Isotricha prostoma

1989 • 50 citations

Cloning, sequencing, and expression of pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase from Propionibacterium freudenreichii.

1991 • 45 citations

Occurrence of pyrophosphate:fructose 6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase in Giardia lamblia trophozoites

1990 • 43 citations

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1987 • 43 citations

Biochemistry of Trichomonas vaginalis

1990 • 39 citations

The evolution of ferredoxins

1988 • 34 citations

Pyruvate kinase from Trichomonas vaginalis, an allosteric enzyme stimulated by ribose 5-phosphate and glycerate 3-phosphate

1992 • 31 citations

Entamoeba histolytica: Isolation of ferredoxin

1980 • 29 citations

Inorganic pyrophosphatase and nucleoside diphosphatase in the parasitic protozoon, Entamoeba histolytica

1978 • 27 citations

Hydrogenosomal succinate thiokinase in Tritrichomonas foetus and Trichomonas vaginalis

1991 • 21 citations

Inorganic pyrophosphatase of Trichomonas vaginalis

1991 • 15 citations