Identifying and characterising the Plasmodium falciparum RhopH3 Plasmodium vivax homologue

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 358, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 861-866

  Mongui, Alvaro ^a   Perez Leal, Oscar ^a   Rojas Caraballo, Jose ^a   Angel, Diana I ^a   Cortes, Jimena ^a   Patarroyo, Manuel A ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO DE INMUNOLOGÍA DE COLOMBIA FIDIC   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; RhopH3; Rhoptry; Vaccine candidate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ERYTHROCYTE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MURINAE; MUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII;

EID: 34249018830     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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