Global expression profiling reveals shared and distinct transcript signatures in arrested act2(-) and CDPK4(-) Plasmodium berghei gametocytes

ABSTRACT: Gametocytogenesis and gametogenesis in malaria parasites are complex processes of cell differentiation and development likely involving many gene products. Gametocytes develop in the blood of the vertebrate host but mature gametocytes are not activated until taken up by the mosquito vector. Several distinct mutants have been described that block gametogenesis but the detailed molecular causes for the mutant phenotypes are not understood. To investigate whether a block in gametogenesis also results in a changed transcriptional profile, we studied two gene deletions mutants; act2(-) lacking stage-specific actin II and CDPK4(-) lacking calcium-dependent protein kinase 4. Whole-genome microarray analysis was performed from RNA of mature gametocytes to compare the transcriptomes of the mutants

ORGANISM(S): Plasmodium berghei

SUBMITTER: Hans-Joachim Mollenkopf 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-65032 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress