A cyanobacterial serine protease of Plasmodium falciparum is targeted to the apicoplast and plays an important role in its growth and development

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 873-890

  Rathore, Sumit ^a   Sinha, Dipto ^a   Asad, Mohd ^a   Böttcher, Thomas ^b   Afrin, Farhat ^c   Chauhan, Virander S ^a   Gupta, Dinesh ^a   Sieber, Stephan A ^b   Mohmmed, Asif ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTONE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; U1 LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE;

ANTIMALARIALS; APICOPLASTS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SERINE PROTEASES;

EID: 77955386462     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07251.x     Document Type: Article

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