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Jorge Tovar

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1992

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Royal Holloway University of London(Current)

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

University of London

Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology

University of Glasgow

Jorge Tovar is an author at Royal Holloway University of London specializing in natural sciences, medicine, and molecular biology.

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1992–2009

20

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Mitochondrial remnant organelles of Giardia function in iron-sulphur protein maturation

Jorge Tovar, Gloria León-Ávila, Lidya B. Sánchez et al. · Nature · 2003 · 612 citations

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The mitosome, a novel organelle related to mitochondria in the amitochondrial parasite <i>Entamoeba histolytica</i>

Jorge Tovar, Anke Fischer, C Graham Clark · Molecular Microbiology · 1999 · 361 citations

A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in <i>Giardia lamblia:</i> Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria

Andrew J. Roger, Staffan G. Svärd, Jorge Tovar et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 287 citations · Full text

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Down-regulation of <i>Leishmania donovani</i> trypanothione reductase by heterologous expression of a trans-dominant mutant homologue: Effect on parasite intracellular survival

Jorge Tovar, Mark L. Cunningham, Aden C. Smith et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 169 citations

Evidence that trypanothione reductase is an essential enzyme in <i>Leishmania</i> by targeted replacement of the <i>tryA</i> gene locus

Jorge Tovar, Shane R. Wilkinson, Jeremy C. Mottram et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 1998 · 153 citations · Full text

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