Protein kinases of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum: The kinome of a divergent eukaryote

BMC Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ward, Pauline ^a   Equinet, Leila ^a   Packer, Jeremy ^b   Doerig, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMODB DATABASE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW;

APICOMPLEXA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTISTA;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN KINASES;

EID: 9144258616     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-5-79     Document Type: Article

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