The complete sequence of Plasmodium berghei merozoite surface protein-1 and its inter- and intra-species variability

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Jennings, Gregory J ^a   Toebe, Carole S ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^b   Wiser, Mark F ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Malaria; Merozoite; Recombination; Tandem repeats; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032523873     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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