Analysis of sequence diversity in the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1)

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 1-14

  Miller, Louis H ^a   Roberts, Theodore ^b   Shahabuddin, Mohammed ^a   McCutchan, Thomas F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic diversity; Malaria; Merozoite surface protein; Sequence alignment; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0027241045     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(93)90002-F     Document Type: Article

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