Biochemical Properties of a Novel Cysteine Protease of Plasmodium vivax, Vivapain-4

• Byoung-Kuk Na ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Byoung-Kuk Na, Young-An Bae

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea, Department of Parasitology and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Korea

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• Young-An Bae ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Byoung-Kuk Na, Young-An Bae

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

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• Young-Gun Zo,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

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• Youngchool Choe,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Seon-Hee Kim,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

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• Prashant V. Desai,

  Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Mitchell A. Avery,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi, Unites States of America

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• Charles S. Craik,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Tong-Soo Kim,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea

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• Philip J. Rosenthal,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Yoon Kong

  * E-mail: ykong@med.skku.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Molecular Medicine, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

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