A Plasmodium falciparum host-targeting motif functions in export during blood stage infection of the rodent malarial parasite Plasmodium berghei

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  MacKenzie, Julia J ^a   Gómez, Noé D ^a   Bhattacharjee, Souvik ^a   Mann, Shaina ^a   Haldar, Kasturi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALARIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT VESICLE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRANSGENES;

EID: 48749114508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002405     Document Type: Article

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