Cloning and expression of the thrombospondin related adhesive protein gene of Plasmodium berghei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Robson, Kathryn J H ^a   Naitza, Silvia ^b   Barker, Guy ^b,d   Sinden, Robert E ^b   Crisanti, Andrea ^b,c  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A domain; Plasmodium berghei; sulphatide binding domain; thrombospondin related adhesive protein; TRAP

Indexed keywords

THROMBOSPONDIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031047743     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02774-0     Document Type: Article

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