Involvement of δ-aminolaevulinate synthase encoded by the parasite gene in de novo haem synthesis by Plasmodium falciparum

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 367, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 321-327

  Varadharajan, S ^a   Dhanasekaran, S ^a   Bonday, Z Q ^a   Rangarajan, P N ^a   Padmanaban, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

ALAS expression; Drug target; Ethanolamine; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; RNA;

PARASITE SURVIVAL;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; HEME; HEMIN; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPHOZOITE;

5-AMINOLEVULINATE SYNTHETASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSS REACTIONS; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOLAMINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEME; HEMIN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037108901     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20020834     Document Type: Article

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