Resistance mutations reveal the atovaquone-binding domain of cytochrome b in malaria parasites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 704-711

  Srivastava, Indresh K ^a,c   Morrlsey, Joanne M ^a   Darrouzet, Elisabeth ^b   Daldal, Fevzi ^b   Vaidya, Akhil B ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; CYTOCHROME B; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ATOVAQUONE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHACRYLATES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHOQUINONES; PLASMODIUM YOELII; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIAZOLES; UBIQUINONE;

EID: 0032781364     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01515.x     Document Type: Article

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