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SUBMITTER: Trenholme KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18136 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trenholme K R KR Gardiner D L DL Holt D C DC Thomas E A EA Cowman A F AF Kemp D J DJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000401 8
The propensity of isolates of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to delete a segment of chromosome 9 has provided positional information that has allowed us to identify a gene necessary for cytoadherence. It has been termed the cytoadherence-linked asexual gene (clag9). clag9 encodes at least nine exons and is expressed in blood stages. The hydrophobicity profile of the predicted CLAG9 protein identifies up to four transmembrane domains. We show here that targeted gene disruption of clag ...[more]