Parasite plastids: Approaching the endgame

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-153

  Wilson, R J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibitors; Malaria; Meta algae; Plasmodium falciparum; Plastid

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTESUNATE; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLOROQUINE; CLINDAMYCIN; DNA; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; FERREDOXIN NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE REDUCTASE; FOSMIDOMYCIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; HEME; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISOPRENOID; MALONYL COENZYME A; PROGUANIL; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; QUININE; THIOCTIC ACID; TRANSFER RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ORGANELLE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; EVOLUTION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALARIA; ORGANELLES; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASTIDS;

EID: 13444301270     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793104006591     Document Type: Review

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