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SUBMITTER: Na BK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2717343 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Korean journal of parasitology 20040601 2
The plasmepsins are the aspartic proteases of malaria parasites. Treatment of aspartic protease inhibitor inhibits hemoglobin hydrolysis and blocks the parasite development in vitro suggesting that these proteases might be exploited their potentials as antimalarial drug targets. In this study, we determined the genetic variations of the aspartic proteases of Plasmodium vivax (PvPMs) of wild isolates. Two plasmepsins (PvPM4 and PvPM5) were cloned and sequenced from 20 P. vivax Korean isolates and ...[more]