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Antibodies raised against a Plasmodium falciparum protein expressed in Escherichia coli reacted with a 220,000-molecular weight antigen of mature blood-stage parasites. The protein resembles the sporozoite surface antigen being composed of tandem repeats of 11 amino acids. However, it is isolate-specific and the encoding gene is not detectable in strains that do not express the protein.
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Coppel, R., Cowman, A., Lingelbach, K. et al. Isolate-specific S-antigen of Plasmodium falciparum contains a repeated sequence of eleven amino acids. Nature 306, 751–756 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/306751a0
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