The Ionic and Hydrophobic Interactions Are Required for the Auto Activation of Cysteine Proteases of Plasmodium falciparum

• Srinivasan Sundararaj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Srinivasan Sundararaj, Deepak Singh

  Affiliation Host–Parasite Interaction Biology Group, National Institute of Malaria Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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• Deepak Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Srinivasan Sundararaj, Deepak Singh

  Affiliation Host–Parasite Interaction Biology Group, National Institute of Malaria Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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• Ajay K. Saxena,

  Affiliation Structural Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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• Kapil Vashisht,

  Affiliation Host–Parasite Interaction Biology Group, National Institute of Malaria Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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• Puran S. Sijwali,

  Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

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• Rajnikant Dixit,

  Affiliation Host–Parasite Interaction Biology Group, National Institute of Malaria Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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• Kailash C. Pandey

  * E-mail: kailashcp@mrcindia.org

  Affiliation Host–Parasite Interaction Biology Group, National Institute of Malaria Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dwarka, New Delhi, India

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