Malaria parasite proteins that remodel the host erythrocyte

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 341-354

  Maier, Alexander G ^a,b   Cooke, Brian M ^c   Cowman, Alan F ^a   Tilley, Leann ^a,b  

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

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; CD36 ANTIGEN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLYCOPHORIN A; GLYCOPHORIN C; MATURE PARASITE INFECTED ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED HIS RICH PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIFARUM ANTIGEN 332; PLASMODIUM FALCIFARUM ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIFARUM RETICULOCYTE BINDING LIKE PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIFARUM SKELETON BINDING PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN DNAJ; PROTEIN EXPORT ELEMENT; PROTEIN KAHRP; PROTEIN RESA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RESA LIKE PROTEIN; RING EXPORTED PROTEIN 1; SIALOGLYCOPROTEIN; SPECTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CYTOSKELETON; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 64749100258     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2110     Document Type: Review

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