Structure and expression of an adhesive protein-like molecule of mosquito invasive-stage malarial parasite

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 189, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1947-1952

  Yuda, Masao ^a,b   Sawai, Toshiki ^a   Chinzei, Yasuo ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTRP; Malaria; Ookinete; Plasmodium berghei; TRAP

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULICIDAE; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0033591636     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.189.12.1947     Document Type: Article

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