Real-Time Imaging of the Intracellular Glutathione Redox Potential in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Kasozi, Denis ^a   Mohring, Franziska ^a   Rahlfs, Stefan ^a   Meyer, Andreas J ^b   Becker, Katja ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CHLOROQUINE; GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEFLOQUINE; METHYLENE BLUE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PARAQUAT; PYOCYANINE; QUININE; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THIOL;

ANTIMALARIAL DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84892898251     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003782     Document Type: Article

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