Trials for the co-expression of the merozoite surface protein-1 and circumsporozoite protein genes of Plasmodium vivax

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 227-233

  Lee, Choonghee ^a   Chung, Kyung Won ^a   Kim, Tong Soo ^b   Choi, Kyung Mi ^a,c   Choi, Yien Kyoung ^a,c   Chung, Nam Jun ^a   Rhie, Ho Gun ^a   Lee, Ho Sa ^a   Lee, Sung Jae ^a   Lee, Hyeong Woo ^d  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Inha University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumsporozoite protein; Merozoite surface protein 1; Plasmodium vivax; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 2; MALARIA VACCINE; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MLC CHIMERIC RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1 GENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE; SPLEEN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, VIVAX; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 80054766981     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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