From cradle to grave: RNA biology in malaria parasites

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 287-303

  Hughes, Katie R ^a   Philip, Nisha ^a   Lucas Starnes, G ^a   Taylor, Sonya ^a   Waters, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAMETE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SALIVARY GLAND; SPLICEOSOME; SPOROZOITE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA STABILITY;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857755131     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.30     Document Type: Review

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