Sequence diversity in the amino-terminal 47 kDA fragment of the Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-254

  Morimatsu, Katsumi ^a   Morikawa, Tomohiro ^a   Tanabe, Kazuyuki ^b   Bzik, David J ^c   Horii, Toshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelic variants; Deletion and insertion; Dimorphism; Plasmodium falciparum; Serine repeat antigen

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SERINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030922593     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00038-8     Document Type: Article

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