A Leishmania amazonensis ZIP family iron transporter is essential for parasite replication within macrophage phagolysosomes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 203, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2363-2375

  Huynh, Chau ^a   Sacks, David L ^b   Andrews, Norma W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROPORTIN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; INOCULATION; IRON TRANSPORT; LEISHMANIA AMAZONESIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHAGOLYSOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; IRON; LEISHMANIA; LYSOSOMES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE; YEASTS;

EID: 33749325014     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20060559     Document Type: Article

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