ADF2 is required for transformation of the ookinete and sporozoite in malaria parasite development

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 397, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 668-672

  Doi, Yuko ^a,b   Shinzawa, Naoaki ^a,c   Fukumoto, Shinya ^a   Okano, Hideyuki ^b   Kanuka, Hirotaka ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Development; Infection; Morphology; Parasite

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN ADF2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN GENE; ADF2 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; GENE; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER CELL; MALE; MIDGUT; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954385452     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.05.155     Document Type: Article

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