Protective Epitopes of the Plasmodium falciparum SERA5 Malaria Vaccine Reside in Intrinsically Unstructured N-Terminal Repetitive Sequences

• Masanori Yagi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masanori Yagi, Gilles Bang

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Gilles Bang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masanori Yagi, Gilles Bang

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Parasitologie Bio-Médicale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Takahiro Tougan,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Nirianne M. Q. Palacpac,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Nobuko Arisue,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Taiki Aoshi,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Adjuvant Innovation, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Laboratory of Vaccine Science, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoshitsugu Matsumoto,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ken J. Ishii,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Adjuvant Innovation, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Laboratory of Vaccine Science, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Thomas G. Egwang,

  Affiliation Med Biotech Laboratories, Kampala, Uganda

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• Pierre Druilhe,

  Current address: The Vac4all initiative, Paris, France

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Parasitologie Bio-Médicale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Toshihiro Horii

  * E-mail: horii@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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