Egress of Plasmodium berghei gametes from their host erythrocyte is mediated by the MDV-1/PEG3 protein

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1272-1288

  Ponzi, Marta ^a   Sidén Kiamos, Inga ^a   Bertuccini, Lucia ^b   Currà, Chiara ^a   Kroeze, Hans ^c   Camarda, Grazia ^a   Pace, Tomasino ^a   Franke Fayard, Blandine ^c   Laurentino, Eliane C ^c   Louis, Christos ^a,d   Waters, Andrew P ^e   Janse, Chris J ^c   Alano, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MDV 1; PROTEIN PEG3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE DISRUPTION; HOST CELL; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SPORE; SPOROZOITE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GERM CELLS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEX FACTORS;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 67650149012     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01331.x     Document Type: Article

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