Plasmodium falciparum myosins: Transcription and translation during asexual parasite development

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 200-213

  Chaparro Olaya, Jacqueline ^a,b   Margos, Gabriele ^c   Coles, Deborah J ^a   Dluzewski, Anton R ^c   Mitchell, Graham H ^c   Wasserman, Moisés ^b,d   Pinder, Jennifer C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Asexual stages; Invasion; Malaria; Motility; Myosin; Pfmyo D; Plasmodium; Sequence

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN; PROTEIN PFMYO A; PROTEIN PFMYO B; PROTEIN PFMYO C; PROTEIN PFMYO D; PROTEIN PFMYO E; PROTEIN PFMYO F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYOSINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 22244440193     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20055     Document Type: Article

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