Identification of a transcription factor in the mosquito-invasive stage of malaria parasites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1402-1414

  Yuda, Masao ^a   Iwanaga, Shiroh ^b   Shigenobu, Shuji ^c   Mair, Gunnar R ^d   Janse, Chris J ^d   Waters, Andrew P ^e   Kato, Tomomi ^a   Kaneko, Izumi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAZAKI INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN AP2 O; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-2;

PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 62449221794     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06609.x     Document Type: Article

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