Malaria adhesins: Structure and function

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 621-631

  Malpede, Brian M ^a   Tolia, Niraj H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

CELL VACUOLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE; CELL ADHESION; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; HUMANS; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84898549688     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12276     Document Type: Review

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