A sugar phosphatase regulates the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway in malaria parasites

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Guggisberg, Ann M ^a   Park, Jooyoung ^a   Edwards, Rachel L ^a   Kelly, Megan L ^a   Hodge, Dana M ^a   Tolia, Niraj H ^a   Odom, Audrey R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYXYLULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE; FOSMIDOMYCIN; GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME; HALOACID; HALOACID DEHALOGENASE; METHYLERYTHRITOL PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-DEOXY-D-XYLULOSE 5-PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE; 2-C-METHYLERYTHRITOL 4-PHOSPHATE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; DEOXYXYLULOSE PHOSPHATE; ERYTHRITOL; FOSFOMYCIN; ISOMERASE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SUGAR-PHOSPHATASE; XYLOSE;

ALLELE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALARIA; PARASITE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ANTIMALARIALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYTOPLASM; DRUG RESISTANCE; ERYTHRITOL; FOSFOMYCIN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; XYLOSE;

EID: 84905003560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5467     Document Type: Article

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