An epithelial serine protease, AgESP, is required for plasmodium invasion in the mosquito anopheles gambiae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rodrigues, Janneth ^a,b   Oliveira, Giselle A ^a   Kotsyfakis, Michalis ^a,c   Dixit, Rajnikant ^a,d   Molina Cruz, Alvaro ^a   Jochim, Ryan ^a   Barillas Mury, Carolina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE EPITHELIAL SERINE PROTEINASE; GELSOLIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGESP GENE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE; GENE SILENCING; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; EPITHELIUM; GELSOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SALIVARY GLANDS; SERINE PROTEASES;

EID: 84859578800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035210     Document Type: Article

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