The Exported Protein PbCP1 Localises to Cleft-Like Structures in the Rodent Malaria Parasite Plasmodium berghei

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Haase, Silvia ^a   Hanssen, Eric ^b   Matthews, Kathryn ^a   Kalanon, Ming ^a   de Koning Ward, Tania F ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI CLEFT LIKE PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 84876824087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061482     Document Type: Article

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