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Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-3 contains coiled-coil motifs in an alanine-rich central domain
1 Jun 1999
Abstract excerpt
Plasmodium merozoites are covered with a palisade layer of proteins that are arranged as organized bundles or appear as protruding spikes by electron microscopy. Here we present a third Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein, PvMSP-3, which is associated with but not anchored in the merozoite membrane. Serum from a P. vivax immune squirrel monkey was used to screen a lambdagt11 P. vivax genomic DNA (gDNA)...
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