Apicoplast triose phosphate transporter (TPT) gene knockout is lethal for Plasmodium

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Banerjee, Tanushree ^a   Jaijyan, Dabbu Kumar ^a   Surolia, Namita ^b   Singh, Agam Prasad ^a   Surolia, Avadhesha ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Apicoplast triose phosphate transporter; Knockout; Lipoylation; P. berghei; Phosphoenolpyruvate transporter; Pyruvate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; TRIOSE PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INACTIVATION; LIFE CYCLE; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL SURVIVAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, ESSENTIAL; ORGANELLES; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TRIOSES;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 84868482243     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: 18729428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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