The conserved plant sterility gene HAP2 functions after attachment of fusogenic membranes in Chlamydomonas and Plasmodium gametes

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1051-1068

  Liu, Yanjie ^a   Tewari, Rita ^b,c   Ning, Jue ^a   Blagborough, Andrew M ^b,d   Garbom, Sara ^b   Pei, Jimin ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^a   Steele, Robert E ^e   Sinden, Robert E ^b   Snell, William J ^a   Billker, Oliver ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell fusion; Chlamydomonas, Plasmodium; Gamete fusion; HAP2; Malaria

Indexed keywords

DYE; HAP2 PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; HAP2 GENE; MALARIA; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 42149150421     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1656508     Document Type: Article

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