Food vacuole targeting and trafficking of falcipain-2, an important cysteine protease of human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-23

  Dasaradhi, Palakodeti V N ^a   Korde, Reshma ^a   Thompson, Jennifer K ^c   Tanwar, Charu ^a   Nag, Tapas C ^b   Chauhan, Virander S ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^c   Mohmmed, Asif ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Falcipain 2; Food vacuole; Malaria; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FALCIPAIN 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FOOD ANALYSIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VACUOLES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34548357299     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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