Mitochondrial ATP synthase is dispensable in blood-stage Plasmodium berghei rodent malaria but essential in the mosquito phase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10216-10223

  Sturm, Angelika ^a   Mollard, Vanessa ^a   Cozijnsen, Anton ^a   Goodman, Christopher D ^a   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerobic respiration; ATP synthase; Malaria; Mitochondrial endosymbiosis; Ookinetes

Indexed keywords

PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PHOTOPROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAMETE; GENE INACTIVATION; MALE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOLYSIS; MALARIA; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; TRANSGENE;

ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSSES, GENETIC; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLYCOLYSIS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; OOCYSTS; OXYGEN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SPOROZOITES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84939806505     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423959112     Document Type: Article

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