Plasmodium species: Master renovators of their host cells

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 494-507

  De Koning Ward, Tania F ^a   Dixon, Matthew W A ^b   Tilley, Leann ^b   Gilson, Paul R ^c,d  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMODIUM EXPORT ELEMENT; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN TRANSLOCASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HOST CELL; IMMUNITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSPORT VESICLE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION SYSTEMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSPORT VESICLES;

EID: 84976863768     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.79     Document Type: Review

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