This short review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of energy metabolism within the eukaryotic flagellum. Using the example of adenylate kinase, we discuss how a requirement to target metabolic enzymes into the flagellum results in the presence of genes encoding novel isoforms of ubiquitous enzymes within flagellate eukaryotes.

Keywords:
adenylate kinase, axoneme, energy metabolism, motility, protein targeting, Trypanosoma
© 2005 The Biochemical Society
2005
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