Autophagy-related Atg8 localizes to the apicoplast of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kitamura, Kei ^a   Kishi Itakura, Chieko ^a   Tsuboi, Takafumi ^b   Sato, Shigeharu ^c   Kita, Kiyoshi ^d   Ohta, Nobuo ^a   Mizushima, Noboru ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; LIPID; PROTEIN ATG8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGOSOME; AUTOPHAGY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONJUGATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMALARIALS; AUTOPHAGY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHLOROQUINE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84865032422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042977     Document Type: Article

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