Identification of proteases that regulate erythrocyte rupture by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-213

  Arastu Kapur, Shirin ^a   Ponder, Elizabeth L ^a   Fonović, Urša Pečar ^a   Yeoh, Sharon ^b   Yuan, Fang ^a,e   Fonović, Marko ^a,c   Grainger, Munira ^b   Phillips, Carolyn I ^a   Powers, James C ^d   Bogyo, Matthew ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e EnzMed (Nanjing) Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; ISOCOUMARINS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBTILISINS; SULFONES;

EID: 39349098031     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.70     Document Type: Article

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