Plasmepsin-1 Protein, Plasmodium falciparum, Recombinant (His)

During the asexual blood stage, catalyzes the initial cleavage of native host hemoglobin (Hb) resulting in Hb denaturation; specifically cleaves between Phe-33 and Leu-34 of Hb alpha-chain. Digestion of host Hb is an essential step which provides the parasite with amino acids for protein synthesis, and regulates osmolarity (Probable) . Plasmepsin-1 Protein, Plasmodium falciparum, Recombinant (His) is expressed in E. coli expression system with N-6xHis tag. The predicted molecular weight is 41.0 kDa and the accession number is P39898.