The apicoplast: A plastid in plasmodium falciparum and other apicomplexan parasites

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 224, Issue , 2003, Pages 57-110

  Foth, Bernardo J ^a   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Apicoplast; Chemotherapy; Evolution; Malaria; Plastid division; Protein targeting

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FATTY ACID; HEME; ISOPRENOID; PROTEOME;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; EIMERIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RED ALGA; RNA TRANSLATION; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ALGAE; APICOMPLEXA; EIMERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROKARYOTA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0037738615     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(05)24003-2     Document Type: Article

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