The peculiarities and paradoxes of plasmodium heme metabolism

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2014, Pages 259-278

  Sigala, Paul A ^a   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Hemozoin; Malaria; Porphyrins; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CYTOCHROME; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOPROTEIN; HEMOZOIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATABOLISM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HEME; HUMANS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 84907567820     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-091313-103537     Document Type: Review

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