PSLAP, a protein with multiple adhesive motifs, is expressed in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-20

  Delrieu, Isabelle ^a   Waller, Cecilia C ^a   Mota, Maria M ^a   Grainger, Munira ^a   Langhorne, Jean ^a   Holder, Anthony A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gametocytes; LCCL; Malaria; Plasmodium; SRCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PSLAP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE DOSAGE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, LIPOPROTEIN; RECEPTORS, SCAVENGER; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS B; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

INVERTEBRATA; LIMULUS; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII;

EID: 0037197705     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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