Identifying and characterizing a member of the RhopH1/Clag family in Plasmodium vivax

Gene

Volumn 481, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-23

  Moreno Perez, Darwin A ^a   Mongui, Alvaro ^a   Soler, Laura N ^a   Sanchez Ladino, Milena ^a   Patarroyo, Manuel A ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO DE INMUNOLOGÍA DE COLOMBIA FIDIC   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cytoadherence; Malaria; Multigene family; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Rhoptry

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PFCLAG9; PROTEIN PVCLAG7; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CYCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 79957655332     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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