A Chimeric Peptide Inhibits Red Blood Cell Invasion by Plasmodium falciparum with Hundredfold Increased Efficacy
J. Mannuthodikayil, S. Sinha, S. Singh, A. Biswas, I. Ali, P. C. Mashurabad, W. Tabassum, P. Vydyam, M. K. Bhattacharyya, K. Mandal
The paper designs a chimeric peptide that inhibits Plasmodium falciparum red blood cell invasion with 100x higher efficacy than its parent peptides.
bioRxiv · Sep 28, 2021Biochemistry