Vital role for the Plasmodium actin capping protein (CP) beta-subunit in motility of malaria sporozoites

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1356-1367

  Ganter, Markus ^a,b   Schüler, Herwig ^a,c   Matuschewski, Kai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN CAPPING PROTEIN; ACTIN CAPPING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; PATAMOSTAT MESYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MOTILITY; DISEASE CARRIER; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DELETION; HOST; MALARIA; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE;

ACTIN CAPPING PROTEINS; ACTINS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; GENE DELETION; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPOROZOITES;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 72049128316     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06828.x     Document Type: Article

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