Structural Basis for Parasite-Specific Functions of the Divergent Profilin of Plasmodium falciparum

Structure

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1638-1648

  Kursula, Inari ^a   Kursula, Petri ^a   Ganter, Markus ^b   Panjikar, Santosh ^c   Matuschewski, Kai ^b   Schüler, Herwig ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

MICROBIO; PROTEINS

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LIGAND; PHOSPHOLIPID; PROFILIN; PROLINE;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROFILINS; PROLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RODENTIA;

EID: 55249112784     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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