PfEMP1 - a parasite protein family of key importance in plasmodium falciparum malaria immunity and pathogenesis

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-84

  Hviid, Lars ^a   Jensen, Anja T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Immunity; Malaria; Pathogenesis; PfEMP1; Plasmodium falciparum; Structure function; Vaccine; Var genes

Indexed keywords

CD36 ANTIGEN; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MALARIA VACCINE; EMP3 PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISULFIDE BOND; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GAMETOCYTE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLACENTA MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84928206210     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.apar.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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