Beninese Plant Extracts with Antiplasmodial Activity Select New Allele Variants Msp1 and Msp2 in Plasmodium falciparum

Table 1

Msp1 and Msp2 alleles of P. falciparum detected in exposed and unexposed parasites.

Genes	Allelic families	Fragment sizes (base pairs) per plant extract treatment
		Negative control	Dissotis rotundifolia	Ehretia cymosa	Hibiscus surattensis	CpE2	Cola millenii	Artesunate (positive control)	Costus afer
Msp1	K1	150	150	150	150	150	100	150	150
		200	200	200	200	200	150	200	200
		250	250	250	250	250	200	250	250
		700	700	700	700	700	250	700	700
							700
	Mad20	150	150	150	150	150	150	150	150
		250	250	250	250	250	250	250	250
	RO33	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
		700	300	300	700	700	300	700	700
			700	700			700
Msp2	3D7	250	250	250	250	250	250	250	250
		350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350
	FC27	180	150	180	180	180	180	180	180
		900	180	300	300	300	300	400	300
			300	900	400	400	900	900	400
			400		900	900			600
			800						900
			900

Values shown in the table represent the different alleles classified according to the length (in base pairs).