Limited genetic diversity of the Plasmodium falciparum aquaglyceroporin gene

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 255-257

  Bahamontes Rosa, Noemí ^a   Wu, Binghua ^b   Beitz, Eric ^b   Kremsner, Peter G ^a,c   Kun, Jürgen F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Aquaglyceroporin; Malaria; Methylamine efflux assay; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

AQUAGLYCEROPORIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GABON; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; METHYLAMINES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PORINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 35348992598     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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