Critical roles for the digestive vacuole plasmepsins of Plasmodium falciparum in vacuolar function

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-75

  Bonilla, J Alfredo ^a   Bonilla, Tonya D ^a   Yowell, Charles A ^a   Fujioka, Hisashi ^b   Dame, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ATAZANAVIR; CHLOROQUINE; INDINAVIR; LEUPEPTIN; LOPINAVIR; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; NELFINAVIR; PLASMEPSIN I; PLASMEPSIN II; PLASMEPSIN IV; RITONAVIR; SAQUINAVIR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL VACUOLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH RATE; KNOCKOUT GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE DELETION; HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VACUOLES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34250620398     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05768.x     Document Type: Article

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