A Babesia bovis merozoite protein with a domain architecture highly similar to the thrombospondin-related anonymous protein (TRAP) present in Plasmodium sporozoites

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-34

  Gaffar, Fasila R ^a   Yatsuda, Ana P ^a   Franssen, Frits F J ^a   De Vries, Erik ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adhesive domain; Apicomplexa; Babesia bovis; Cell invasion; RBC; red blood cell; thrombospondin related anonymous protein; Thrombospondin related anonymous protein (TRAP); TRAP

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; THROMBOSPONDIN 1; THROMBOSPONDIN RELATED ANONYMOUS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BABESIA BOVIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL INVASION; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEROZOITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BABESIA BOVIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 2342626472     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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