Plasmodium knowlesi: Secondary processing of the malaria merozoite surface protein-1

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-239

  Blackman, Michael J ^a   Dennis, E David ^b   Hirst, Elizabeth M A ^a   Kocken, Clemens H ^c   Scott Finnigan, Terry J ^a   Thomas, Alan W ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

erythrocyte invasion; malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium knowlesi; proteolytic processing; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST CELL; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PROTOZOA; SIMIAE;

EID: 0030198484     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0069     Document Type: Article

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