Single-stranded DNA binding Protein from human malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum is encoded in the nucleus and targeted to the apicoplast

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7037-7053

  Prusty, Dhaneswar ^a   Dar, Ashraf ^a   Priya, Rashmi ^a   Sharma, Atul ^a   Dana, Srikanta ^a   Choudhury, Nirupam Roy ^a   Rao, N Subba ^a   Dhar, Suman Kumar ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TETRAMER;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL NUCLEUS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 78651303052     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq565     Document Type: Article

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