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Plasmodium vivax: functional analysis of a highlyconserved PvRBP-1 protein region.

  • Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo
  • , Elvia María Cantor
  • , Tania Bibiana Lombo
  • , Libia Alexandra Cepeda
  • , Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
  • , Ana María Espinosa
  • , Carlos Alberto Barrero
  • , Fanny Guzmán
  • , María L. Gunturiz
  • , Mauricio Urquiza
  • , Marisol Ocampo Cifuentes

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Abstract

Plasmodium iax is one of the most prevalent malarial species around the world [1]. Two P. iax reticulocyte binding proteins (PvRBP-1 and PvRBP-2),
expressed at the apical pole of this parasite, are considered to be the binding ligands involved in the specific
selection of this younger red blood cell population [2].
The adhesion of the PvRBP complex, to an unknown
receptor on the target cells, does not depend on the
presence of the red blood cell Duffy glycoprotein, this
being strictly a receptor for the PvDBP protein
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)229 - 234
Number of pages6
JournalMolecular and Biochemical Parasitology
Volume1
Issue number117
StatePublished - 2001

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