Critical role for a stage-specific actin in male exflagellation of the malaria parasite

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1714-1730

  Deligianni, Elena ^a   Morgan, Rhiannon N ^a,b   Bertuccini, Lucia ^c   Kooij, Taco W A ^d   Laforge, Alice ^a   Nahar, Carolin ^d   Poulakakis, Nikos ^b   Schüler, Herwig ^e   Louis, Christos ^a,b   Matuschewski, Kai ^d   Siden Kiamos, Inga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN I; ACTIN II; PROTOZOAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; AXONEME; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MALE EXFLAGELLATION; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULICIDAE; CYTOPLASM; FLAGELLA; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 80054120241     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01652.x     Document Type: Article

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