A set of glycosylphosphatidyl inositol-anchored membrane proteins of Plasmodium falciparum is refractory to genetic deletion

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4330-4338

  Sanders, Paul R ^a,b,c   Kats, Lev M ^d   Drew, Damien R ^a   O'Donnell, Rebecca A ^a   O'Neill, Matthew ^a   Maier, Alexander G ^a   Coppel, Ross L ^d   Crabb, Brendan S ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b The Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL LINE; GENE DELETION; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 33745630355     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00054-06     Document Type: Article

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