A Novel Malaria Vaccine Candidate Antigen Expressed in Tetrahymena thermophila

Development of effective malaria vaccines is hampered by the problem of producing correctly folded Plasmodium proteins for use as vaccine components. We have investigated the use of a novel ciliate expression system, Tetrahymena thermophila, as a P. falciparum vaccine antigen platform. A synthetic v...

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Main Authors: Cowan, Graeme J. M., Bockau, Ulrike, Eleni-Muus, Janna, Aldag, Ingo, Samuel, Kay, Creasey, Alison M., Hartmann, Marcus W. W., Cavanagh, David R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906136/