The inner membrane complex through development of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 632-641

  Harding, Clare R ^a   Meissner, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 20; LIPID BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITIDE; PROTEIN GAP50; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOGENESIS; BRADYZOITE; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAMETOCYTE; INNER MEMBRANE COMPLEX; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIPID METABOLISM; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PALMITOYLATION; PARAMECIUM; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZONT; SPOROZOITE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TROPHOZOITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LOCOMOTION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 84898539452     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12285     Document Type: Review

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