The aspartic proteinase from the rodent parasite Plasmodium berghei as a potential model for plasmepsins from the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

FEBS Letters

Volumn 463, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 43-48

  Humphreys, Michelle J ^a   Moon, Richard P ^b   Klinder, Annette ^a   Fowler, Sylvia D ^a   Rupp, Katharina ^b   Bur, Daniel ^b   Ridley, Robert G ^b   Berry, Colin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aspartic proteinase; Malaria; Plasmepsin; Plasmodium berghei; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PEPSTATIN; PEPTIDE; PLASMEPSIN I;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYDROLYSIS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; ENZYME PRECURSORS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033430156     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01597-5     Document Type: Article

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