Calcium uptake and proton transport by acidocalcisomes of toxoplasma gondii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rohloff, Peter ^a   Miranda, Kildare ^a,b   Rodrigues, Juliany C F ^a,b   Fang, Jianmin ^a   Galizzi, Melina ^a   Plattner, Helmut ^c   Hentschel, Joachim ^c   Moreno, Silvia N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ACRIDINE ORANGE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ARSENAZO 3; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CALCIUM PROTON ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; IODIXANOL; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYPHOSPHATE; PROTON; PROTON PUMP;

ACIDOCALCISOME; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PROTON TRANSPORT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; TOXOPLASMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EIMERIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ION TRANSPORT; ORGANELLES; POLYPHOSPHATES; PROTON PUMPS; PROTONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TOXOPLASMA; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 79955571034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018390     Document Type: Article

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