Unexpected fold in the circumsporozoite protein target of malaria vaccines

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7817-7822

  Doud, Michael B ^a   Koksal, Adem C ^a   Mi, Li Zhi ^a   Song, Gaojie ^a   Lu, Chafen ^a   Springer, Timothy A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; HEPARIN; MALARIA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SPOROZOITE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPOROZOITES;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84861213666     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205737109     Document Type: Article

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