Pyruvate kinase type-II isozyme in Plasmodium falciparum localizes to the apicoplast

Parasitology International - Tập 58 Số 1 - Trang 101-105 - 2009
Takuya Maeda1, Tomoya Saito1, Omar S. Harb2, David S. Roos2, Satoru Takeo3, Hiroko Suzuki3, Takafumi Tsuboi3, Tsutomu Takeuchi1, Takashi Asai1
1Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
2Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 301 Goddard Laboratories Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
3Cell-free Science and Technology Research Center, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8577, Japan

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