Plasmodium falciparum responds to amino acid starvation by entering into a hibernatory state

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages

  Babbitt, Shalon E ^a   Altenhofen, Lindsey ^b   Cobbold, Simon A ^b   Istvan, Eva S ^a   Fennellf, Clare ^c,e   Doerig, Christian ^c,d   Llinás, Manuel ^b   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Artemesinin; Autophagy; Protease

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARTEMISININ; GENOMIC DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; ISOLEUCINE; PROTEINASE; RNA; TRICARBOXYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIBERNATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ARTEMISININS; CARBON; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HIBERNATION; HUMANS; ISOLEUCINE; METABOLOME; PARASITES; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEOLYSIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; STARVATION;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 84869845804     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209823109     Document Type: Article

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