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The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can sense environmental changes and respond by antigenic switching
The primary antigenic and virulence determinant of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a variant surface protein called PfEMP1. Different forms of PfEMP1 are encoded by a multicopy gene family called var, and switching between active genes enables the parasites to evade the antibody...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151525/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37068249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302152120 |