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Polymorphism in a <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Erythrocyte-binding Ligand Changes Its Receptor Specificity
25 Nov 2002
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Recognition of human erythrocytes by Plasmodium species depends in part on Region II of the Duffy binding-like family of parasite ligands, which includes BA erythrocyte binding ligand (BAEBL) of P. falciparum. In previous studies of BAEBL from two clones, Dd2/Nm from Vietnam and E12 from Papua New Guinea (PNG), it was found that BAEBL bound different erythrocyte receptors. Because of variation in binding...
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