Cloning and characterization of Plasmodium falciparum cysteine protease, falcipain-2B

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 429-435

  Jeong, Jong Jin ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^b   Hanada, Toshihiko ^a   Seo, Pil Soo ^a   Li, Xuerong ^a   Hanspal, Manjit ^b   Chishti, Athar H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankyrin; Cysteine protease; Falcipain; Inside out vesicles; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; ERYTHROCYTE BAND 4.1 PROTEIN; FALCIPAIN 2; GENOMIC DNA; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FALCIPAIN 2B GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHOZOITE; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33646849892     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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