CTRP is essential for mosquito infection by malaria ookinetes

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 6221-6227

  Dessens, Johannes T ^a   Beetsma, Annette L ^a   Dimopoulos, George ^b   Wengelnik, Kai ^a   Crisanti, Andrea ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^b   Sinden, Robert E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microneme; Mosquito; Plasmodium berghei; Transgenic parasite

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE AND TRAP RELATED PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPITHELIUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINES; MALARIA; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER;

INSECTA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033570888     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.22.6221     Document Type: Article

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