An update on the rapid advances in malaria parasite cell biology

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 305-310

  Coppens, Isabelle ^a   Sullivan, David J ^a   Prigge, Sean T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; FOSMIDOMYCIN; MALARIA VACCINE;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG RESISTANCE; APICOPLAST; BLOOD PARASITE; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ANIMALS; FATTY ACID SYNTHETASE COMPLEX; GLYCEROLPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 77952584312     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2010.03.007     Document Type: Review

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