Correct promoter control is needed for trafficking of the ring-infected erythrocyte surface antigen to the host cytosol in transfected malaria parasites

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 6095-6105

  Rug, Melanie ^a,b   Wickham, Mark E ^b   Foley, Michael ^a   Cowman, Alan F ^b   Tilley, Leann ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST CELL; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCHIZONT; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 4644246654     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.10.6095-6105.2004     Document Type: Article

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