Plasmodium falciparum NIMA-related kinase Pfnek-1: Sex specificity and assessment of essentiality for the erythrocytic asexual cycle

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2785-2794

  Dorin Semblat, Dominique ^a,b   Schmitt, Sophie ^c   Semblat, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Sicard, Audrey ^a,b   Reininger, Luc ^a,b   Goldring, Dean ^d   Patterson, Shelley ^e   Quashie, Neils ^f   Chakrabarti, Debopam ^e   Meijer, Laurent ^c   Doerig, Christian ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ERYTHROCYTE BAND 3 PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PFNEK 1 GENE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 80053440912     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.049023-0     Document Type: Article

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