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Conservation of structural motifs and antigenic diversity in the Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-3 (MSP-3).

Molecular and biochemical parasitology - 1 Dec 1997

McColl D J, Anders R F

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Merozoite surface protein-3 (MSP-3) is a secreted polymorphic antigen associated with erythrocytic schizonts and merozoites of Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood-stages. A prominent structural feature of MSP-3 is a domain composed of three blocks of tandemly-repeated heptads with the consensus sequence AXXAXXX. The three blocks of four alanine heptad-repeats are separated by short stretches of non-repetitive...

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PMID: 9497029
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-6851(97)00130-8

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