Targeted disruption of py235ebp-1: Invasion of erythrocytes by Plasmodium yoelii using an alternative py235 erythrocyte binding protein

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ogun, Solabomi A ^a   Tewari, Rita ^b   Otto, Thomas D ^c   Howell, Steven A ^a   Knuepfer, Ellen ^a   Cunningham, Deirdre A ^a   Xu, Zhengyao ^a   Pain, Arnab ^c,d   Holder, Anthony A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PY235 ERYTHROCYTE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MEROZOITE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD TYPE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALARIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE DELETION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM YOELII; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 79952215581     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001288     Document Type: Article

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