Cloning of the repertoire of individual Plasmodium falciparum var genes using Transformation Associated Recombination (TAR)
One of the major virulence factors of the malaria causing parasite is the Plasmodium falciparum encoded erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1). It is translocated to It the membrane of infected erythrocytes and expressed from approximately 60 var genes in a mutually exclusive manner. Switching of v...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2862/ |