Cooperative silencing elements in var genes

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

Cloning the P. falciparum gene encoding PfEMP1, a malarial variant antigen and adherence receptor on the surface of parasitized human erythrocytes

Dror I. Baruch, Britten L. Pasloske, Hardeep B. Singh et al. · Cell · 1995 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, 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

Antigenic variation in malaria: in situ switching, relaxed and mutually exclusive transcription of var genes during intra‐erythrocytic development in Plasmodium falciparum

Artur Scherf, Rosaura Hernández‐Rivas, Pierre Buffet et al. · The EMBO Journal · 1998 · 627 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Biology +13

Developmental selection of var gene expression in Plasmodium falciparum

Qijun Chen, Victor Fernandez, Annika Sundström et al. · Nature · 1998 · 533 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +8