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Adhesive proteins of the malaria parasite
R L Coppel1, G V Brown, V Nussenzweig
1Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia.
Current Opinion in Microbiology
|March 6, 1999
Abstract:
Malaria infection of the host cells requires host-parasite recognition events mediated by adhesion and signaling molecules. Recent development of systems for stable transformation and targeted integration of exogenous DNA in malaria parasites provides a powerful tool to study the structure and function of Plasmodium attachment motifs, and their role in infection and disease.