Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-3 contains coiled-coil motifs in an alanine-rich central domain

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 131-147

  Galinski, Mary R ^a   Corredor Medina, Claudia ^a   Povoa, Marinette ^b   Crosby, Juan ^a   Ingravallo, Paul ^a   Barnwell, John W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antigen; Blood stage; Coiled coils; Immunity; Malaria; Merozoite; Plasmodium vivax; Schizont; Surface protein; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEROZOITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZONT;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAIMIRI;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM KNOWLESI; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0033054665     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00063-8     Document Type: Article

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