Gene disruption reveals a dispensable role for Plasmepsin VII in the Plasmodium berghei life cycle

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-13

  Mastan, Babu S ^a   Kumari, Anchala ^b   Gupta, Dinesh ^b   Mishra, Satish ^c   Kumar, Kota Arun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^c CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Aspartic proteases; Mosquito stages; Plasmepsins; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PLASMEPSIN VII; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLASMEPSIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; KINETICS; LIFE CYCLE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE GENETICS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; SPOROZOITE;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 84902053869     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: 18729428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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