Amino acid dimorphism and parasite immune evasion: Cellular immune responses to a promiscuous epitope of Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 1 displaying dimorphic amino acid polymorphism are highly constrained

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3667-3677

  Daubenberger, Claudia A ^a   Nickel, Beatrice ^a   Ciatto, Carlo ^b   Grütter, Markus G ^b   Pöltl Frank, Friederike ^a   Rossi, Laura ^a   Siegler, Uwe ^a   Robinson, John ^b   Kashala, Oscar ^d   Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin ^c   Pluschke, Gerd ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d Fundacion Inst Inmunol Colombia Universidad Nacional de Colombia ^*

Author keywords

Human CD4 T lymphocyte; Immune evasion; Malaria; Molecular modeling

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; CD4 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; GROWTH INHIBITOR; HLA DP ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING COMPETITION; CELL LINE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0036915067     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200212)32:12<3667::AID-IMMU3667>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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