Functional molecules on the surface of protozoan parasites
By: edited by J.E. Smith ; co-ordinating editor, L.H. Chappell.
Contributors: Smith, John E.; Chappell, Leslie H.
Series: Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology -- v. 31.; Parasitology -- v. 108, suppl.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge, [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Protozoa -- Genetics.; Molecular parasitology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Proteins on the surface of the malaria parasite and cell invasion; value: Molecular mechanisms of sequestration in malaria; value: Mutational and functional analysis of the Leishmania metalloproteinase GP63: similarities to matrix metalloproteinases; value: Trans-sialidase, SAPA amino acid repeats and the relationship between Trypanosoma cruzi and the mammalian host; value: Glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol molecules of the parasite and the host; value: Role of lipophosphoglycan of Leishmania in vector biology; value: Characterization of phosphoglycan-containing secretory products of Leishmania; value: Biochemistry and molecular genetics of Leishmania glucose transporters.