Expression of a recombinant IRP-like Plasmodium falciparum protein that specifically binds putative plasmodial IREs

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-238

  Loyevsky, Mark ^a   Mompoint, Farah ^a   Yikilmaz, Emine ^b   Altschul, Stephen F ^c   Madden, Thomas ^c   Wootton, John C ^c   Kurantsin Mills, Joseph ^a   Kassim, Olakunle O ^d   Gordeuk, Victor R ^a   Rouault, Tracey A ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IRE; Iron; IRP; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HEPARIN; HISTIDINE; PHOSPHORUS 32; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RESIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IRON-REGULATORY PROTEINS; JURKAT CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0037327815     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00278-5     Document Type: Article

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