A female gametocyte-specific ABC transporter plays a role in lipid metabolism in the malaria parasite

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tran, Phuong N ^a,b   Brown, Simon H J ^c   Mitchell, Todd W ^c   Matuschewski, Kai ^d   McMillan, Paul J ^e   Kirk, Kiaran ^a   Dixon, Matthew W A ^e   Maier, Alexander G ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER RESISTANCE PROTEIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; CYCLIC AMP; ESTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; ABC TRANSPORTER; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LIPID; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; START CODON; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TROPHOZOITE; WESTERN BLOTTING; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIPID METABOLISM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84923334618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5773     Document Type: Article

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