Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast transit peptides are unstructured in vitro and during apicoplast import

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Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1124-1138

  Gallagher, John R ^a   Matthews, Krista A ^a   Prigge, Sean T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyl carrier protein; Apicoplast; Malaria; Trafficking; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; APICOPLAST PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICOPLAST; APICOPLAST IMPORT; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; ORGANELLES; PEPTIDES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 80051672532     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: 16000854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2011.01232.x     Document Type: Article

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