A Plasmodium chabaudi protein contains a repetitive region with a predicted spectrin-like structure

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-196

  Werner, Ekkehard B E ^a,b   Taylor, William R ^a   Holder, Anthony A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Leucine histidine zipper; Malaria; Plasmodium chabaudi; Repetitive sequence; Spectrin

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; SPECTRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ERYTHROCYTE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MALARIA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SPECTRIN;

PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 0032146649     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00067-X     Document Type: Article

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