Cloning and characterization of Plasmodium falciparum homologs of nuclear import factors, karyopherin α and karyopherin β

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Kishore, Shivendra ^a   Dasaradhi, Palakodeti V N ^a   Patra, Kailash ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a   Chauhan, Virander S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Karyopherin ; Karyopherin ; Nucleocytoplasmic transport; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0037417214     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00331-6     Document Type: Article

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