The malaria parasite's chloroquine resistance transporter is a member of the drug/metabolite transporter superfamily

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1938-1949

  Martin, Rowena E ^a   Kirk, Kiaran ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chloroquine; Drug resistance; Drug metabolite transporter; Malaria; PfCRT; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; CHLOROQUINE RESISTANCE TRANSPORTER; DIMER; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL VACUOLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ION TRANSPORT; MALARIA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLOROQUINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 4944253804     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh205     Document Type: Article

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