Generation of hemoglobin peptides in the acidic digestive vacuole of Plasmodium falciparum implicates peptide transport in amino acid production

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 123-135

  Kolakovich, Kathleen A ^a   Gluzman, Ilya Y ^a   Duffin, Kevin L ^b   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a,c  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exopeptidase; Multidrug resistance; P glycoprotein; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; EXOPEPTIDASES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VACUOLES;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030873366     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00062-5     Document Type: Article

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