Regulators of Trypanosoma brucei Cell Cycle Progression and Differentiation Identified Using a Kinome-Wide RNAi Screen

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jones, Nathaniel G ^a,b   Thomas, Elizabeth B ^b   Brown, Elaine ^a,b   Dickens, Nicholas J ^a,b   Hammarton, Tansy C ^b   Mottram, Jeremy C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MITOSIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

EID: 84893808671     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003886     Document Type: Article

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