Malaria proteases mediate inside-out egress of gametocytes from red blood cells following parasite transmission to the mosquito

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 897-912

  Sologub, Ludmilla ^a   Kuehn, Andrea ^a   Kern, Selina ^a   Przyborski, Jude ^b   Schillig, Rebecca ^a   Pradel, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOXISTATIN; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; NIGERICIN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; XANTHURENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LEUCINE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NIGERICIN; NITROPHENOLS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TEMPERATURE; TOSYLLYSINE CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; VACUOLES; XANTHURENATES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POTATO VIRUS M;

EID: 79955962686     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01588.x     Document Type: Article

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