Plasmodium falciparum serine-repeat antigen (SERA) forms a homodimer through disulfide bond

Parasitology International

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 261-265

  Sato, Dan ^a,b   Li, Jie ^a,c   Mitamura, Toshihide ^a   Horii, Toshihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimer formation; Plasmodium falciparum; Protein processing; Serine repeat antigen

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DIMER; DISULFIDE; MONOMER; SERINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZONT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 24744444923     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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