Antibodies to a conserved-motif peptide sequence of the Plasmodium falciparum thrombospondin-related anonymous protein and circumsporozoite protein recognize a 78-kilodalton protein in the asexual blood stages of the parasite and inhibit merozoite invasion in vitro

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2172-2179

  Sharma, Pawan ^a   Bharadwaj, Ashima ^a   Bhasin, V K ^b   Sailaja, V N ^a   Chauhan, V S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN; THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ANONYMOUS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGENICITY; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CROSS REACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS;

EID: 0029933925     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.6.2172-2179.1996     Document Type: Article

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