Is PfCRT a channel or a carrier? Two competing models explaining chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 332-339

  Sanchez, Cecilia P ^a   Stein, Wilfred D ^b   Lanzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CHLOROQUINE; PFCRT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34250644012     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2007.04.013     Document Type: Review

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