Fig. 1
From: Identification of a novel merozoite surface antigen of Plasmodium vivax, PvMSA180
Schematic of recombinant PvMSA180 expression. a Schematic of PvMSA180. The D1 (amino acids [aa] 28–401), D2 (aa 385–800), D3 (aa 785–1180), and D4 (aa 1163–1603) domains were expressed using cell-free and bacterial expression systems. SP signal peptide, P polymorphic region (aa 290–307). b Clustal alignment of the C-terminus sequence of MSA180 of Plasmodium vivax (Pv), Plasmodium falciparum (Pf), Plasmodium knowlesi (Pk), and Plasmodium cynomolgi (Pc). Red bars indicate the conserved aa in the four Plasmodium species, green bars in three species, sky-blue bars in two species, and dark-blue bars in one species. Asterisks denote cysteine residues conserved in the four Plasmodium species