Flagellar motility is required for the viability of the bloodstream trypanosome

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7081, 2006, Pages 224-227

  Broadhead, Richard ^a   Dawe, Helen R ^b   Farr, Helen ^b   Griffiths, Samantha ^b   Hart, Sarah R ^c   Portman, Neil ^b   Shaw, Michael K ^b   Ginger, Michael L ^b   Gaskell, Simon J ^c   McKean, Paul G ^a   Gull, Keith ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASE CONTROL; PROTEINS; PROTOZOA; RNA; VACCINES;

CILIA; FLAGELLAR MOTILITY; RNA INTERFERENCE (RNAI);

CELL CULTURE;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLAGELLUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 33644858832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04541     Document Type: Article

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