Reducing requirements for hemoglobin hydrolysis by Plasmodium falciparum cysteine proteases

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-104

  Shenai, Bhaskar R ^a   Rosenthal, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Falcipain; Food vacuole; Glutathione; Hemoglobinase; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Protease; Proteinase

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FALCIPAIN 2; FALCIPAIN 3; GLUTATHIONE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN HYDROXYLASE; LEUPEPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLUTATHIONE; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROLYSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TIME FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0036072627     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00075-0     Document Type: Article

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