Mutations conferring drug resistance in malaria parasite drug transporters Pgh1 and PfCRT do not affect steady-state vacuolar Ca2+ [1]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4807-4808

  Biagini, Giancarlo A ^a   Fidock, David A ^b   Bray, Patrick G ^a   Ward, Stephen A ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM ION; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORIDE ION; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG METABOLITE; HEMATIN; PROTEIN PFCRT; PROTEIN PGH1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

BIOINFORMATICS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CELL PH; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; LETTER; MALARIA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PICHIA PASTORIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CALCIUM; CHLOROQUINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VACUOLES;

EID: 27644597015     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.11.4807-4808.2005     Document Type: Letter

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