Plasmodium pyruvate dehydrogenase activity is only essential for the parasite's progression from liver infection to blood infection

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 957-971

  Pei, Ying ^a   Tarun, Alice S ^a,c   Vaughan, Ashley M ^a   Herman, Rob W ^a   Soliman, Joanne M B ^a   Erickson Wayman, Alyssa ^a   Kappe, Stefan H I ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEPATITIS; LIFE CYCLE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; MITOCHONDRION; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; RODENT MALARIA; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; LIVER; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PLASTIDS; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE (LIPOAMIDE);

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM PARASITES; PLASMODIUM YOELII; RODENTIA;

EID: 76449090046     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.07034.x     Document Type: Article

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