BMC Genomics

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Revisiting the Plasmodium falciparum RIFIN family: from comparative genomics to 3D-model prediction

Emanuele Bultrini1, Kevin Brick1, Srayanta Mukherjee2, Yang Zhang2, Francesco Silvestrini1, Pietro Alano1 and Elisabetta Pizzi1*

Author Affiliations

1 Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie ed Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Roma, Italy

2 University of Kansas, Department of Molecular Biosciences Center for Bioinformatics 2030 Becker D0 Lawrence, KS 66047-1620, USA

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:445 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-445

Published: 21 September 2009

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Additional file 1:

RIFINs in 3D7, HB3 and Dd2. three lists are reported of selected RIFINs in the three P. falciparum clones 3D7, HB3 and Dd2.

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Assessment of RIF_A 3D-models. the data provide results of PROSA and PROCHECK programs on the subset of 24 RIF_A 3D-models

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Additional file 3:

Alignments of RIF_As and RIF_Bs. Two Alignments of representative members of RIF_As and RIF_Bs are shown.

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