Structural insights into thioredoxin-2: A component of malaria parasite protein secretion machinery

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sharma, Ashwani ^a   Sharma, Arvind ^a   Dixit, Sameer ^a   Sharma, Amit ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIOREDOXINS;

EID: 84859780613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00179     Document Type: Article

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