Plasmodium falciparum: VAR2CSA expressed during pregnancy-associated malaria is partially resistant to proteolytic cleavage by trypsin

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Nielsen, Morten A ^a,b   Resende, Mafalda ^a,b   Alifrangis, Michael ^a,b   Turner, Louise ^a,b   Hviid, Lars ^a,b   Theander, Thor G ^a,b   Salanti, Ali ^a,b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abs; antibodies; Antibodies; BeWo; bovine serum albumin; BSA; chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans; Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans; choriocarcinoma cell line; CSA; DBL; deoxyribonucleic acid; dithiothreitol; DNA; DTT; duffy binding like; Duffy binding like domains; EDTA; EMVI; ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid; European malaria vaccine initiative; FCM; FCS; fetal calf serum; FITC; flow cytometry; Flowcytometry; fluorescein isothiocyanate; GLURP; glutamate rich protein; IAA; IE; IgG; Immunoglobulin isotype G; immunoglobulin isotype G; infected erythrocyte; Infected erythrocyte; iodoacetamid; mean fluorescence index; merozoite surface protein; MFI; MSP2; NHS; normal human serum; PAM; PCR; PfEMP1; Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1; polymerase chain reaction; pregnancy associated malaria; Pregnancy associated malaria; VAR2CSA; variant surface antigens; Variant surface antigens; VSA

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PROTEINASE; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATE; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAR2CS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DITHIOTHREITOL; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PLACENTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RABBITS; SEX FACTORS; TRYPSIN;

BOVINAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 34547129825     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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