Evidence for distinct prototype sequences within the Plasmodium falciparum Pf60 multigene family

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-11

  Bonnefoy, Serge ^a,b   Bischoff, Emmanuel ^a   Guillotte, Micheline ^a   Mercereau Puijalon, Odile ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic variation; Diversity; Malaria; Multigene family; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BABESIA SP.; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030832295     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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