A mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates male gametogenesis and transmission of the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 464-469

  Rangarajan, Radha ^a   Bei, Amy K ^a   Jethwaney, Deepa ^a   Maldonado, Priscilla ^a   Dorin, Dominique ^b   Sultan, Ali A ^a   Doerig, Christian ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exflagellation; Gametogenesis; MAPK; Plasmodium; Transmission

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; GAMETOGENESIS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 20044392299     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400404     Document Type: Article

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