The Plasmodium serine-type SERA proteases display distinct expression patterns and non-essential in vivo roles during life cycle progression of the malaria parasite

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 725-739

  Putrianti, Elyzana D ^a,b   Schmidt Christensen, Anja ^c,d   Arnold, Iris ^b   Heussler, Volker T ^c   Matuschewski, Kai ^a,b   Silvie, Olivier ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PROTEINASE; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 1; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 2; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN, PLASMODIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MEROZOITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITEMIA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SERINE PROTEASES;

EID: 77954233027     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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