Cell Biological Characterization of the Malaria Vaccine Candidate Trophozoite Exported Protein 1

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kulangara, Caroline ^a,b   Luedin, Samuel ^a,b   Dietz, Olivier ^a,b   Rusch, Sebastian ^a,b   Frank, Geraldine ^c   Mueller, Dania ^a,b   Moser, Mirjam ^a,b   Kajava, Andrey V ^d   Corradin, Giampietro ^c   Beck, Hans Peter ^a,b   Felger, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; TROPHOZOITE EXPORTED PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SOLUBILITY; TROPHOZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREFELDIN A; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOSOL; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACUOLES;

EID: 84867303317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046112     Document Type: Article

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