Evidence for a common role for the serine-type Plasmodium falciparum serine repeat antigen proteases: Implications for vaccine and drug design

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5565-5574

  McCoubrie, Joanne E ^a,b   Miller, Susanne K ^a,b   Sargeant, Tobias ^a,b   Good, Robert T ^a   Hodder, Anthony N ^a   Speed, Terence P ^a   De Koning Ward, Tania F ^a   Crabb, Brendan S ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MESSENGER RNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN SERA1; PROTEIN SERA2; PROTEIN SERA3; PROTEIN SERA4; PROTEIN SERA5; PROTEIN SERA6; PROTEIN SERA7; PROTEIN SERA8; PROTEIN SERA9; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; SERINE; SERINE REPEAT ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; APICOMPLEXA; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DRUG DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; TRANSFECTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 36749042579     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00405-07     Document Type: Article

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