Identification of a Plasmodium vivax heat-shock protein which contains a metalloprotease sequence motif

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 387-390

  Fakruddin, Jamaluddin M ^a   Biswas, Sukla ^b   Sharma, Yagya D ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Fever; Heat shock protein; Malaria parasite; Plasmodium vivax; Protease

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 0031452808     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00173-4     Document Type: Article

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