The Plasmodium berghei Ca2+/H+ Exchanger, PbCAX, Is Essential for Tolerance to Environmental Ca2+ during Sexual Development

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Guttery, David S ^a   Pittman, Jon K ^b   Frénal, Karine ^c   Poulin, Benoit ^a   McFarlane, Leon R ^d   Slavic, Ksenija ^e   Wheatley, Sally P ^a   Soldati Favre, Dominique ^c   Krishna, Sanjeev ^d   Tewari, Rita ^a   Staines, Henry M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CALCIUM PROTON EXCHANGER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAMETE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST; ZYGOTE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIPORTERS; CALCIUM; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84880949759     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003191     Document Type: Article

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