Ancient human sialic acid variant restricts an emerging zoonotic malaria parasite

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Dankwa, Selasi ^a   Lim, Caeul ^a   Bei, Amy K ^a   Jiang, Rays H Y ^a   Abshire, James R ^b   Patel, Saurabh D ^a,c   Goldberg, Jonathan M ^a   Moreno, Yovany ^a   Kono, Maya ^a   Niles, Jacquin C ^b   Duraisingh, Manoj T ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE OLIGOMERIC MATRIX PROTEIN; DUFFY BINDING PROTEIN; HOST FACTOR; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; N GLYCOLOYLNEURAMINIC ACID; CMPACETYLNEURAMINATE MONOOXYGENASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; N-GLYCOLYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NEURAMINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGAND; MALARIA; MONOSACCHARIDE; MUTATION; PARASITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; EXON; GENE DELETION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IC50; IN VITRO STUDY; MACACA; MACAQUE MODEL; MICROBIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REDUCTION; TROPISM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; HEK293 CELL LINE; MALARIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSES;

MACACA; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NEURAMINIC ACIDS; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84962754759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11187     Document Type: Article

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