Origins of sequence diversity in the malaria vaccine candidate merozoite surface protein-2 (MSP-2) in amazonian isolates of plasmodium falciparum

Gene

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 224-230

  Hoffmann, Erika H E ^a   Malafronte, Rosely S ^a   Moraes Ávila, Sandra L ^a   Osakabe, Ana Lúcia ^a   Wunderlich, Gerhard ^a   Durham, Alan M ^a   Ribolla, Paulo Eduardo M ^b   del Portillo, Hernando A ^a   Ferreira, Marcelo U ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic diversity; Gene conversion; Malaria; MSP 2; Recombination; Replication slippage

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2, PLASMODIUM; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROBABILITY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA VACCINES; MARKOV CHAINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33748100700     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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