Hyper-expansion of asparagines correlates with an abundance of proteins with prion-like domains in Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium falciparum encodes ∼5300 proteins of which ∼35% have repeats of amino acids, significantly higher than in other fully sequenced eukaryotes. The proportion of proteins with amino acid homorepeats varies from 4 to 54% amongst different functional classes of proteins. These homorepeats are d...

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