Variation in susceptibility of African Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites to TEP1 mediated killing in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Eldering, Maarten ^a,b   Morlais, Isabelle ^c   Van Gemert, Geert Jan ^a   Van De Vegte Bolmer, Marga ^a   Graumans, Wouter ^a   Siebelink Stoter, Rianne ^a   Vos, Martijn ^a   Abate, Luc ^c   Roeffen, Will ^a   Bousema, Teun ^a,d   Levashina, Elena A ^b   Sauerwein, Robert W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PFS47 PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TEP1 PROTEIN, ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSECT VECTOR; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84957587047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20440     Document Type: Article

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