Plasmodium falciparum pyruvate kinase as a novel target for antimalarial drug-screening

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 125-131

  Chan, Maurice ^a   Tan, Doreen S H ^a   Sim, T S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cDNA; Glycolysis; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Pyruvate kinase

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PYRUVATE KINASE; PYRUVATE KINASE 1; PYRUVATE KINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG SCREENING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33846894111     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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