Stage-specific depletion of myosin A supports an essential role in motility of malarial ookinetes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1996-2006

  Siden Kiamos, Inga ^a   Ganter, Markus ^b,f   Kunze, Andreas ^c,g   Hliscs, Marion ^b   Steinbüchel, Marion ^c   Mendoza, Jacqueline ^d   Sinden, Robert E ^d   Louis, Christos ^a,e   Matuschewski, Kai ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MYOSIN; MYOSIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MYOSINS; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRANSFECTION;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 81455137632     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2011.01686.x     Document Type: Article

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