The merozoite has landed: reticulocyte-binding-like ligands and the specificity of erythrocyte recognition

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 104-106

  Rayner, Julian C ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL RECEPTOR; DUFFY BINDING PROTEIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL INVASION; CELL SURFACE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEROZOITE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETICULOCYTE; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MEROZOITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RETICULOCYTES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 60749086998     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.11.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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