Structural and functional insights into the malaria parasite moving junction complex

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Vulliez Le Normand, Brigitte ^a,b   Tonkin, Michelle L ^c   Lamarque, Mauld H ^d   Langer, Susann ^c   Hoos, Sylviane ^a   Roques, Magali ^d   Saul, Frederick A ^a,b   Faber, Bart W ^e   Bentley, Graham A ^a,b   Boulanger, Martin J ^c   Lebrun, Maryse ^d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN; RHOPTRY NECK PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN I, PLASMODIUM; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEROZOITE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGE DISPLAY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL MEMBRANE; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84864054673     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002755     Document Type: Article

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