Human malaria parasites display a receptor for activated C kinase ortholog

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 306, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 995-1001

  Madeira, Luciana ^a   DeMarco, Ricardo ^a   Gazarini, Marcos L ^a   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^a   Garcia, Célia R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell signaling; Confocal microscopy; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; RACK; Scaffold protein

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DANIO; DANIO RERIO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0038434142     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01074-X     Document Type: Article

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