Regulatory elements within the prodomain of falcipain-2, a cysteine protease of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Pandey, Kailash C ^a   Barkan, David T ^b,c   Sali, Andrej ^b,c   Rosenthal, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN K; CATHEPSIN L; CRUZIPAIN; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE I; FALCIPAIN 2; LEUCINE; CATHEPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME STABILITY; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66349120908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005694     Document Type: Article

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