Abundance of intrinsically unstructured proteins in P. falciparum and other apicomplexan parasite proteomes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 256-267

  Feng, Zhi Ping ^a   Zhang, Xiuzhen ^b   Han, Pengfei ^b   Arora, Neeraj ^b   Anders, Robin F ^c   Norton, Raymond S ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Research   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apicomplexan parasites; Intrinsically unstructured proteins; Low complexity region; Plasmodium falciparum; Repeats

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIBODY; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOST CELL; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33750711671     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.08.011     Document Type: Article

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