Life cycle studies of the hexose transporter of Plasmodium species and genetic validation of their essentiality

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1402-1413

  Slavic, Ksenija ^a   Straschil, Ursula ^b,f   Reininger, Luc ^c   Doerig, Christian ^c,d   Morin, Christophe ^e   Tewari, Rita ^b,f   Krishna, Sanjeev ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEXOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; EPISOME; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PFHT GENE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE TARGETING; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRANSGENES;

EID: 77949357436     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07060.x     Document Type: Article

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