A Novel DBL-Domain of the P. falciparum 332 Molecule Possibly Involved in Erythrocyte Adhesion

Kirsten Moll; Arnaud Chêne; Ulf Ribacke; Osamu Kaneko; Sandra Nilsson; Gerhard Winter; Malin Haeggström; Weiqing Pan; Klavs Berzins; Mats Wahlgren; Qijun Chen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000477

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A Novel DBL-Domain of the P. falciparum 332 Molecule Possibly Involved in Erythrocyte Adhesion

Kirsten Moll,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Arnaud Chêne ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Arnaud Chêne, Ulf Ribacke

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Ulf Ribacke ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Arnaud Chêne, Ulf Ribacke

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Osamu Kaneko,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Parasitology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan
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Sandra Nilsson,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gerhard Winter,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Malin Haeggström,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Weiqing Pan,

Affiliation Department of Etiologic Biology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
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Klavs Berzins,

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mats Wahlgren,

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Qijun Chen

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Qijun.Chen@smi.ki.se

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology (PMV), Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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A Novel DBL-Domain of the P. falciparum 332 Molecule Possibly Involved in Erythrocyte Adhesion

Kirsten Moll,
Arnaud Chêne,
Ulf Ribacke,
Osamu Kaneko,
Sandra Nilsson,
Gerhard Winter,
Malin Haeggström,
Weiqing Pan,
Klavs Berzins,
Mats Wahlgren

Published: May 30, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000477

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Correction to Table 1

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 31 May 2007 at 18:07 GMT

Amino acid substitutions in the region encoded by exon I of Pf332P
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000477#pone-0000477-t001

The author has indicated that the column "Position 69" should in fact be excluded from this table.

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