The malarial CDK Pfmrk and its effector PfMAT1 phosphorylate DNA replication proteins and co-localize in the nucleus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-18

  Jirage, Dayadevi ^a   Chen, Yueqin ^a,f   Caridha, Diana ^a   O'Neil, Michael T ^a   Eyase, Fredrick ^b   Witola, William H ^c   Mamoun, Choukri Ben ^d   Waters, Norman C ^a,e  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CDK; Cell cycle; DNA replication; Malaria; Pfmrk; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 5; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 6; PROTEIN PFMAT1; PROTEIN PFMRK; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA REPLICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA REPLICATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METAZOA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77952547764     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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