Rifins: a second family of clonally variant proteins expressed on the surface of red cells infected with Plasmodium falciparum.
Many pathogens evade the host immune response or adapt to their environment by expressing surface proteins that undergo rapid switching. In the case of Plasmodium falciparum, products of a multigene family known as var are expressed on the surface of infected red cells, where they undergo clonal ant...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1999
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