The C-terminal portion of the cleaved HT motif is necessary and sufficient to mediate export of proteins from the malaria parasite into its host cell

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 835-850

  Tarr, Sarah J ^a   Cryar, Adam ^a   Thalassinos, Konstantinos ^a   Haldar, Kasturi ^b   Osborne, Andrew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ERYTHROCYTE BAND 3 PROTEIN; PLASMEPSIN V; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST TARGETING MOTIF; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SECRETORY PATHWAY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84873446244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12133     Document Type: Article

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