Targeting malaria virulence and remodeling proteins to the host erythrocyte

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5703, 2004, Pages 1930-1933

  Marti, Matthias ^a   Good, Robert T ^a   Rug, Melanie ^a   Knuepfer, Ellen ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MEMBRANES; PROTEINS;

ERYTHROCYTES; MALARIA PARASITES; PARASITOPHOROUS;

MALARIA CONTROL;

PROTEOME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

MALARIA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VACUOLES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 10344250457     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102452     Document Type: Article

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