Microtubule associated motor proteins of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-200

  Fowler, Ruth E ^a,b   Smith, Anna M C ^a   Whitehorn, James ^a   Williams, Ian T ^a   Bannister, Lawrence H ^a   Mitchell, Graham H ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynein; Invasion; Kinesin; Malaria; Microtubules; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

9 (2 HYDROXY 3 NONYL)ADENINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; DINITROANILINE; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GAMMA TUBULIN; KINESIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TRIFLURALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANADATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; MEROZOITE; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZONT; TROPHOZOITE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL POLARITY; DYNEIN ATPASE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCEIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINESIN; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROTUBULES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TUBULIN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0034798892     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00351-6     Document Type: Article

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