The apicoplast of Plasmodium falciparum is translationally active

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-89

  Chaubey, Sushma ^a   Kumar, Ambrish ^a   Singh, Divya ^a   Habib, Saman ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TUFA GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; THIOSTREPTON;

EID: 16244385594     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04538.x     Document Type: Article

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