Cloning and sequence analysis of the thrombospondin-related adhesive protein (TRAP) gene of Plasmodium cynomolgi bastianelli

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 371-376

  Sijwali, Puran Singh ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a   Puri, Sunil Kumar ^b   Chauhan, Virander Singh ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Plasmodium cynomolgi; Sporozoite surface protein 2 (SSP2); Sulfatide binding domain; Thrombospondin related adhesive protein (TRAP)

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ADHESIVE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

PLASMODIUM CYNOMOLGI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031468480     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00166-7     Document Type: Article

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