Orientating peptide residues and increasing the distance between Pockets to enable fitting into MHC-TCR complex determine protection against malaria.

The erythrocyte binding antigen EBA-175 is a 175-kDa Plasmodium falciparum protein, which has been shown to be involved in the process of invasion of erythrocytes. It has been found that conserved peptide 1818 belonging to this protein has high red blood cell binding capacity and plays an important...

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Autores Principales: Cifuentes, Gladys, Espejo, Fabiola, Vargas, Luis Eduardo, Parra, Carlos, Vanegas, Magnolia, Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: ACS Publications 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/26417
https://doi.org/10.1021/bi049698%2B