Figure 1.

Three pools of the relatively conserved peptides from PfEMP1. Pool 1 is from the DBLα domain, pool 2 contains two peptides from CIDRα and ten from DBLβ-δ and CIDRβ domains and pool 3 contains conserved peptides from the intracellular EXON 2 domain. The peptides were selected as representative of 15 var gene sequences as described in the Materials and Methods Section. TM stands for transmembrane region.