David S. Peterson

The large diverse gene family var encodes proteins involved in cytoadherence and antigenic variation of plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes

Xin‐zhuan Su, Virginia M. Heatwole, Samuel P. Wertheimer et al. · Cell · 1995 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +14

Switches in expression of plasmodium falciparum var genes correlate with changes in antigenic and cytoadherent phenotypes of infected erythrocytes

Joseph D. Smith, Chetan E. Chitnis, David J. Roberts et al. · Cell · 1995 · 1K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +12

Evidence that a point mutation in dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase confers resistance to pyrimethamine in falciparum malaria.

David S. Peterson, David Walliker, Thomas E. Wellems · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 657 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Pharmacology +17

Molecular basis of differential resistance to cycloguanil and pyrimethamine in Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

David S. Peterson, Wilbur K. Milhous, Thomas E. Wellems · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 423 citations

Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology +17

Isolation of multiple sequences from the Plasmodium falciparum genome that encode conserved domains homologous to those in erythrocyte-binding proteins.

David S. Peterson, L H Miller, Thomas E. Wellems · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1995 · 119 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +14