Natural selection and population genetic structure of domain-I of Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen-1 in India

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 247-256

  Basu, Madhumita ^a   Maji, Ardhendu Kumar ^b   Mitra, Mitashree ^c   Sengupta, Sanghamitra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^c PT RAVISHANKAR SHUKLA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Apical membrane antigen 1; Genetic diversity; India; Kolkata; Plasmodium falciparum; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1 GENE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN-1; GENETIC DIVERSITY; INDIA; KOLKATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84879527359     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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