Overexpression and altered nucleocytoplasmic distribution of Anopheles ovalbumin-like SRPN10 serpins in Plasmodium-infected midgut cells

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-190

  Danielli, Alberto ^a,b   Barillas Mury, Carolina ^c,d   Kumar, Sanjeev ^d   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a   Loukeris, Thanasis G ^a,e  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MARKER; OVALBUMIN; PROTEIN P25; PROTEIN P28; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MIDGUT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; OOCYTE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; INSECT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERPINS; UP-REGULATION;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 13844318276     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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