A complex of three related membrane proteins is conserved on malarial merozoites

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-143

  Rayavara, Kempaiah ^a   Rajapandi, Thavamani ^a   Wollenberg, Kurt ^a   Kabat, Juraj ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^a   Desai, Sanjay A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Heterologous expression; Merozoite; Plasmodium; Transmembrane proteins

Indexed keywords

BACULOVIRUS VECTOR; LIPOSOME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SUMO PROTEIN;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INSECT CELL; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BACULOVIRIDAE; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INSECTS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEROZOITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

APICOMPLEXA; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 67649306188     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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