Expression and characterisation of Plasmodium falciparum acidic basic repeat antigen expressed in Escherichia coli

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-224

  Kushwaha, Ashima ^a   Rao, Prakash P L ^a   Duttu, Vallabhapurapu S ^a   Malhotra, Pawan ^a   Chauhan, Virander S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin; Invasion; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Serine protease

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CHYMOSTATIN; LEUPEPTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FACTOR XA; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ABRA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034047075     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00212-1     Document Type: Article

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