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Structural determination of functional units of the nucleotide binding domain (NBD94) of the reticulocyte binding protein Py235 of Plasmodium yoelii.
PloS one - 10 Feb 2010
Grüber Ardina, Manimekalai Malathy S S, Balakrishna Asha M, Hunke Cornelia, Jeyakanthan Jeyaraman, Preiser Peter R, Grüber Gerhard
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BACKGROUND: Invasion of the red blood cells (RBC) by the merozoite of malaria parasites involves a large number of receptor ligand interactions. The reticulocyte binding protein homologue family (RH) plays an important role in erythrocyte recognition as well as virulence. Recently, it has been sh...
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