Characterization of a protective Escherichia coli-expressed Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 3 indicates a non-linear, multi-domain structure

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-56

  Tsai, Chiawei W ^a   Duggan, Peter F ^a   Jin, Albert J ^b   MacDonald, Nicholas J ^a   Kotova, Svetlana ^b   Lebowitz, Jacob ^b   Hurt, Darrell E ^a   Shimp Jr , Richard L ^a   Lambert, Lynn ^a   Miller, Louis H ^a   Long, Carole A ^a   Saul, Allan ^a   Narum, David L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aotus; Escherichia coli; Malaria; MSP3; Plasmodium falciparum; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

MEFLOQUINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AOTUS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VACCINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; AOTIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

AOTUS NANCYMAAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 58549088281     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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