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In order to avoid immune recognition in favor of a chronic infection, the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has developed means to express clonally variant antigens at the surface of the infected erythrocyte (IE). Proteins of the var and rif multicopy gene families, encoding PfEMP1 and RIFINs, respectively, have been implicated in these processes. Here, we studied members of the latter family...