Molecular interactions and signaling mechanisms during erythrocyte invasion by malaria parasites

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 422-428

  Gaur, Deepak ^a   Chitnis, Chetan E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE BINDING ANTIGEN 1; ERYTHROCYTE BINDING ANTIGEN 140; ERYTHROCYTE BINDING ANTIGEN 175; ERYTHROCYTE BINDING ANTIGEN 181; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BINDING LIKE HOMOLOGUE PROTEIN 1; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BINDING LIKE HOMOLOGUE PROTEIN 2; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BINDING LIKE HOMOLOGUE PROTEIN 4; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM BINDING LIKE HOMOLOGUE PROTEIN 5; PLASMODIUM VIVAX RETICULOCYTE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MEROZOITE; MICRONEME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INVASION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; RHOPTRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CALCIUM; CELL MOVEMENT; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MALARIA; MEROZOITES; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 80051800780     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2011.07.018     Document Type: Review

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