Transient silencing of Plasmodium falciparum bifunctional glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-6-phosphogluconolactonase

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1537-1546

  Crooke, Almudena ^a   Diez, Amalia ^a   Mason, Philip J ^b,c   Bautista, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; dsRNA; Gene silencing; Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE 6 PHOSPHOGLUCONOLACTONASE; MESSENGER RNA; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 6 PHOSPHOGLUCONOLACTONASE; 6-PHOSPHOGLUCONOLACTONASE; ANTIOXIDANT; CARBOXYLESTERASE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; OXIDIZING AGENT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA VECTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TROPHOZOITE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33745158974     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05174.x     Document Type: Article

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