Plasmodium falciparum: Genetic polymorphism in apical membrane antigen-1 gene from Indian isolates

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 144-151

  Rajesh, Vidya ^a   Singamsetti, Vijay Kumar ^a   Vidya, S ^a   Gowrishankar, M ^a   Elamaran, M ^a   Tripathi, Jyotsna ^a   Radhika, N B ^a   Kochar, Dhanpat ^b   Ranjan, Akash ^c   Roy, S K ^d   Das, Ashis ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^b S P MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^d Anandalok Diagnostics and Tomoscan ^*  (India)

Author keywords

AMA; apical membrane antigen; Apical membrane antigen 1; average number of non synonymous nucleotide substitutions per non synonymous site; average number of nucleotide substitutions per site per pair of sequences; average number of synonymous nucleotide substitutions per synonymous site; deoxyribonucleic acid; dN; DNA; dS; India; PfAMA 1; Pi; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium falciparum AMA 1; Plasmodium vivax AMA 1; Polymorphism; PvAMA 1; Sequence variation; single nucleotide polymorphism; SNP; Taq; Thermus aquaticus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; CYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; THERMUS AQUATICUS;

EID: 41549138169     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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