The role of malaria merozoite proteases in red blood cell invasion

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 422-427

  O'Donnell, Rebecca A ^a   Blackman, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RECEPTOR; RHOMBOIDS; SERINE PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES INVASION; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

APICOMPLEXA; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 22544464433     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.06.018     Document Type: Review

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