Molecular machinery of signal transduction and cell cycle regulation in Plasmodium

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Koyama, Fernanda C ^a   Chakrabarti, Debopam ^b   Garcia, Célia R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Kinases; Malaria; Plasmodium; Serpentine receptor

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; INDOLE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 60649093106     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.01.003     Document Type: Review

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