Critical role of a K+ channel in Plasmodium berghei transmission revealed by targeted gene disruption

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6398-6402

  Ellekvist, Peter ^a   Maciel, Jorge ^c   Mlambo, Godfree ^c   Ricke, Christina H ^a   Colding, Hanne ^b   Klaerke, Dan A ^d   Kumar, Nirbhay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drug target; Malaria; Mosquito; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PFKCH1 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; GENE TARGETING; KINETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RUBIDIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

EID: 44049102485     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802384105     Document Type: Article

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