Deconvoluting heme biosynthesis to target blood-stage malaria parasites

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue JULY2015, 2015, Pages

  Sigala, Paul A ^a   Crowley, Jan R ^a   Henderson, Jeffrey P ^a   Goldberg, Daniel E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEME BIOSYNTHESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMICS; PHOTOTOXICITY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ARTEMISIN; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; HEME; LACTONE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PROTOPORPHYRIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ARTEMISININS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEME; HUMANS; LACTONES; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOPORPHYRINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84939482897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09143.001     Document Type: Article

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