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Structural diversity in the 45-kilodalton merozoite surface antigen of Plasmodium falciparum.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology - 1 Mar 1990
Smythe J A, Peterson M G, Coppel R L, Saul A J, Kemp D J, Anders R F
Abstract excerpt
An integral membrane protein associated with the merozoite surface of Plasmodium falciparum termed merozoite surface antigen 2 (the 45-kDa merozoite surface antigen), occurs in antigenically diverse forms. Here we report the sequences of the MSA 2 gene from two other isolates of P. falciparum. The 43 N-terminal residues and the 74 C-terminal residues of all three MSA 2 sequences are highly conserved, but between...
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