VAR2CSA minimal CSA binding region is located within the N-terminal region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Srivastava, Anand ^a,b,c,d,e   Gangnard, Stéphane ^a,b,c,d,e   Dechavanne, Sébastien ^a,b,c,d,e   Amirat, Farroudja ^a,b   Lewit Bentley, Anita ^a,b   Bentley, Graham A ^a,b   Gamain, Benoît ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c hôpital Robert Debré et Institut national de la transfusion sanguine   (France)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROITIN 4 SULFATE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN POLYSULFATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VAR2CSA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA; VAR2CSA PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; CELL LINE; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79956265522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020270     Document Type: Article

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