Thioredoxin peroxidases of the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum
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- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 268 (5) , 1404-1409
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02005.x
Abstract
The open reading frames of two different proteins with homologies to 2‐Cys peroxiredoxins have been identified in the P. falciparum genome. Both genes, with a length of 585 and 648 bp, respectively, ...Keywords
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