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Plasmodium vivax: allele variants of the mdr1 gene do not associate with chloroquine resistance among isolates from Brazil, Papua, and monkey-adapted strains.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Apr 2005
Sá Juliana Martha, Nomura Takashi, Neves Joana d'Arc, Baird J Kevin, Wellems Thomas E, del Portillo Hernando A
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We describe here the sequence of the Plasmodium vivax mdr1 gene from 10 different isolates differing in chloroquine sensitivity. The deduced amino acid sequence of PvMDR1 shares more than 70% similarity with other malarial MDR proteins and it displays consensus motifs of an ABC family transporter including two transmembrane domains and two ATP binding cassettes. Similarity and dendrogram analyses revealed that...
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