Experimental Genetics of Plasmodium berghei NFU in the Apicoplast Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis Pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Haussig, Joana M ^a   Matuschewski, Kai ^a   Kooij, Taco W A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; FOSMIDOMYCIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITROGEN FIXATION FACTOR U LIKE DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FOSFOMYCIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LIVER; MEROSOME; MOUSE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; MURINAE; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ANIMALS; APICOPLASTS; AZITHROMYCIN; FEMALE; FOSFOMYCIN; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MICE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84879268104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067269     Document Type: Article

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