Systematic analysis of FKBP inducible degradation domain tagging strategies for the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  de Azevedo, Mauro Ferreira ^a,b   Gilson, Paul R ^b,c   Gabriel, Heloisa B ^a   Simões, Roseli F ^a   Angrisano, Fiona ^d,e   Baum, Jacob ^d,e   Crabb, Brendan S ^b,e   Wunderlich, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; RING INFECTED ERYTHROCYTE SURFACE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TARGETING; STABLE TRANSFECTION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84864018505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040981     Document Type: Article

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