A putative homologue of CDC20/CDH1 in the malaria parasite is essential for male gamete development

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Guttery, David S ^a   Ferguson, David J P ^b   Poulin, Benoit ^a   Xu, Zhengyao ^a   Straschil, Ursula ^c   Klop, Onny ^d   Solyakov, Lev ^e   Sandrini, Sara M ^a   Brady, Declan ^a   Nieduszynski, Conrad A ^a   Janse, Chris J ^d   Holder, Anthony A ^f   Tobin, Andrew B ^e   Tewari, Rita ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; CALCIUM DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 4; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN 20; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; CDC20 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; HCT1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; MALE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOKINETE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCHIZONT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; GAMETOGENESIS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GERM CELLS; KINETOCHORES; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84860908048     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002554     Document Type: Article

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