Hyper-expansion of asparagines correlates with an abundance of proteins with prion-like domains in Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 307-319

  Singh, Gajinder Pal ^a   Chandra, Beeram Ravi ^a   Bhattacharya, Arindam ^a   Akhouri, Reetesh Raj ^a   Singh, Saurabh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Amit ^a  

^a Intl Ctr Genetic Eng and Biotech   (India)

Author keywords

Amino acid repeat; Asparagine rich; Insertions; Plasmodium falciparum; Prion like domains

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE DERIVATIVE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ASPARAGINE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 4644370187     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.05.016     Document Type: Article

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