The Malarial Serine Protease SUB1 Plays an Essential Role in Parasite Liver Stage Development

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Suarez, Catherine ^a   Volkmann, Katrin ^b   Gomes, Ana Rita ^b   Billker, Oliver ^b   Blackman, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI SUBTILISIN LIKE PROTEASE 1; SERINE PROTEINASE; SUBTILISIN LIKE PROTEASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SUBTILISIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; MEROZOITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM; SCHIZONT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROZOITE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEPG2 CELL LINE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; LIVER; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIVER; MEROZOITES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SCHIZONTS; SUBTILISINS;

EID: 84892896712     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003811     Document Type: Article

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