Genetic characterization of plasmodium putative pantothenate kinase genes reveals their essential role in malaria parasite transmission to the mosquito

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Hart, Robert J ^a   Cornillot, Emmanuel ^b   Abraham, Amanah ^a   Molina, Emily ^a   Nation, Catherine S ^a   Ben Mamoun, Choukri ^c   Aly, Ahmed S I ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COENZYME A; PANTOTHENATE KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALARIA; METABOLISM; OOCYST; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COENZYME A; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALARIA; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYSTS; PARASITES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPOROZOITES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84988649528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep33518     Document Type: Article

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