Conservation of structural motifs and antigenic diversity in the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-3 (MSP-3)

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-31

  McColl, Damian J ^a   Anders, Robin F ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alanine heptad repeats; Antigenic diversity; Coiled coil; Dimorphism; Plasmodium falciparum; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031467009     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00130-8     Document Type: Article

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