Characterization of a conserved rhoptry-associated leucine zipper-like protein in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 879-887

  Haase, Silvia ^a   Cabrera, Ana ^a   Langer, Christine ^a   Treeck, Moritz ^a   Struck, Nicole ^a   Herrmann, Susann ^a   Jansen, Pascal W ^b   Bruchhaus, Iris ^a   Bachmann, Anna ^a   Dias, Suzana ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^c   Stunnenberg, Hendrik G ^b   Spielmann, Tobias ^a   Gilberger, Tim Wolf ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RHOPTRY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENOME ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ESSENTIAL GENE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE DELETION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 40749088105     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00144-07     Document Type: Article

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