cDNA cloning of a novel cysteine protease of Plasmodium falciparum

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1493, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 242-245

  Hanspal, Manjit ^a  

^a Division of Hematology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine protease; Erythrocyte; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARAGINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FALCIPAIN 1; FALCIPAIN 2; HEMOGLOBIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034618523     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00159-7     Document Type: Article

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