Characterization of the Plasmodium Interspersed Repeats (PIR) proteins of Plasmodium chabaudi indicates functional diversity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yam, Xue Yan ^a   Brugat, Thibaut ^b   Siau, Anthony ^a   Lawton, Jennifer ^b   Wong, Daniel S ^a   Farah, Abdirahman ^a,c   Twang, Jing Shun ^a   Gao, Xiaohong ^a   Langhorne, Jean ^b   Preiser, Peter R ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALARIA; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MALARIA; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84961839418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23449     Document Type: Article

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