Export of malaria proteins requires co-translational processing of the PEXEL motif independent of phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate binding

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Boddey, Justin A ^a,b   O'Neill, Matthew T ^a   Lopaticki, Sash ^a   Carvalho, Teresa G ^a,b,g   Hodder, Anthony N ^a,b   Nebl, Thomas ^a   Wawra, Stephan ^c,h   Van West, Pieter ^c   Ebrahimzadeh, Zeinab ^d   Richard, Dave ^d   Flemming, Sven ^e   Spielmann, Tobias ^e   Przyborski, Jude ^f   Babon, Jeff J ^a,b   Cowman, Alan F ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEXEL PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 PHOSPHATE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LOPINAVIR; POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CELL ORGANELLE; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHEMICAL BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID; MALARIA; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM MEMBRANE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

FRANCE; PAYS DE LA LOIRE;

PAPAYA MOSAIC VIRUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LOPINAVIR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL PHOSPHATES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84956674457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10470     Document Type: Article

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