Apicoplast translation, transcription and genome replication: targets for antimalarial antibiotics

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 279-284

  Dahl, Erica L ^a,b   Rosenthal, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for in Vitro Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FATTY ACID; FOSMIDOMYCIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GYRASE INHIBITOR; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RHODAMINE 123; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TETRACYCLINE; THIOSTREPTON; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; APICOPLAST; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL ORGANELLE; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENOME; HUMAN; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; APICOMPLEXA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 43949134849     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.03.007     Document Type: Review

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