Single amino acid substitution in Plasmodium yoelii erythrocyte ligand determines its localization and controls parasite virulence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7167-7172

  Otsuki, Hitoshi ^a   Kaneko, Osamu ^a,b   Thongkukiatkul, Amporn ^a,c   Tachibana, Mayumi ^a   Iriko, Hideyuki ^a,d   Takeo, Satoru ^e   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^e   Torii, Motomi ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dense granule; Invasion; Malaria; Microneme; Transfection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PLASMODIUM YOELII INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

MUS; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID; LIGAND; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; LIGANDS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 66349121668     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811313106     Document Type: Article

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