Protein translation in Plasmodium parasites

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 467-476

  Jackson, Katherine E ^a   Habib, Saman ^b   Frugier, Magali ^c   Hoen, Rob ^d   Khan, Sameena ^e   Pham, James S ^a   Pouplana, Lluís Ribas de ^f,g   Royo, Miriam ^d   Santos, Manuel A S ^h   Sharma, Amit ^e   Ralph, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

APICOPLAST; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; ANTIMALARIALS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRIA; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 80052953044     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.05.005     Document Type: Review

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