The role of metacaspase 1 in Plasmodium berghei development and apoptosis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-47

  Le Chat, Ludovic ^a   Sinden, Robert E ^b   Dessens, Johannes T ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Metacaspase; Plasmodium berghei

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; PROTEIN MC1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PBMC1 GENE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REPORTER GENE; SPOROZOITE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASPASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34047158115     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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