The stage-regulated HASPB and SHERP proteins are essential for differentiation of the protozoan parasite Leishmania major in its sand fly vector, Phlebotomus papatasi

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1765-1779

  Sádlová, Jovana ^a   Price, Helen P ^b   Smith, Barbara A ^b   Votỳpka, Jan ^a   Volf, Petr ^a   Smith, Deborah F ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN HASPB; PROTEIN SHERP; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHLEBOTOMUS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 78149231890     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01507.x     Document Type: Article

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