Tetracysteine-based fluorescent tags to study protein localization and trafficking in plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Crivat, Georgeta ^a,b   Tokumasu, Fuyuki ^a   Sa, Juliana Martha ^a   Hwang, Jeeseong ^b   Wellems, Thomas E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DIMERCAPROL; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN ARSENICAL HAIRPIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; KNOB ASSOCIATED HISTIDINE RICH PROTEIN; RESORUFIN; RESORUFIN ARSENICAL HAIRPIN; TETRACYSTEINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; KNOB PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; OLIGOPEPTIDE; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CONSTRUCT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

DIMERCAPROL; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OXAZINES; PEPTIDES; PHOTOBLEACHING; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 80051533785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022975     Document Type: Article

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