Revisiting the Plasmodium falciparum RIFIN family: From comparative genomics to 3D-model prediction

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 445-

  Bultrini, Emanuele ^a   Brick, Kevin ^a   Mukherjee, Srayanta ^b   Zhang, Yang ^b   Silvestrini, Francesco ^a   Alano, Pietro ^a   Pizzi, Elisabetta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN RIFIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIFIN PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ARMADILLO; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; GENOMICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 70350452762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-445     Document Type: Article

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