Filling the gap of intracellular dephosphorylation in the Plasmodium falciparum vitamin B1 biosynthesis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-243

  Knöckel, Julia ^a   Bergmann, Bärbel ^a   Müller, Ingrid B ^a   Rathaur, Sushma ^b   Walter, Rolf D ^a   Wrenger, Carsten ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Malaria; Nutrient; Phosphatase; Thiamine; Transfection; Vitamin B1

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATASE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHIMERA; CYTOSOL; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

4-NITROPHENYLPHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRIDOXAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THIAMINE; THIAMINE MONOPHOSPHATE;

FUNGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 38049186917     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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