Plasma Membrane-Located Purine Nucleotide Transport Proteins Are Key Components for Host Exploitation by Microsporidian Intracellular Parasites

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Heinz, Eva ^a,b   Hacker, Christian ^c   Dean, Paul ^a   Mifsud, John ^d   Goldberg, Alina V ^a   Williams, Tom A ^a   Nakjang, Sirintra ^a   Gregory, Alison ^a   Hirt, Robert P ^a   Lucocq, John M ^c   Kunji, Edmund R S ^d   Embley, T Martin ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROSPORIDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSPORIDIA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; PURINE NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, FUNGAL;

EID: 84919625032     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004547     Document Type: Article

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