Metabolic maps and functions of the Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 203-216

  Ralph, Stuart A ^a   van Dooren, Giel G ^b   Waller, Ross F ^c   Crawford, Michael J ^d   Fraunholz, Martin J ^d   Foth, Bernardo J ^e   Tonkin, Christopher J ^b   Roos, David S ^d   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIHYDROXYACETONE PHOSPHATE; FATTY ACID; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOPRENOID; PHOSPHATIDIC ACID; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE PHOSPHATASE; PYRUVATE KINASE; THIOCTIC ACID; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; HEME; HEMITERPENE; ISOPENTENYL DIPHOSPHATE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

APICOPLAST; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CHLOROPLAST; GENE TARGETING; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL ORGANELLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; HEME; HEMITERPENES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 2342520626     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro843     Document Type: Review

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