A role of falcipain-2, principal cysteine proteases of Plasmodium falciparum in merozoite egression

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 336, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1062-1068

  Dasaradhi, Palakodeti V N ^a   Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a   Hossain, Manzar J ^a   Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a   Chauhan, Virander S ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte membrane rupture; Falcipain 2; Merozoite egress; Plasmodium falciparum; RNA interference; siRNA

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FALCIPAIN 1; FALCIPAIN 2; FALCIPAIN 3; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PAPAIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MEROZOITE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHIZONT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 25644448740     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.213     Document Type: Article

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