Microsporidia dressing up: the spore polaroplast transport through the polar tube and transformation into the sporoplasm membrane

Microsporidia dressing up: the spore polaroplast transport through the polar tube and transformation into the sporoplasm membrane

ABSTRACT Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that infect a wide variety of hosts including humans. Microsporidian spores possess a unique, highly specialized invasion apparatus involving the polar filament, polaroplast, and posterior vacuole. During spore germination, the polar filame...

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Main Authors: Qing Lv, Liuyi Hong, Lei Qi, Yuqing Chen, Zhengkai Xie, Hongjie Liao, Chunfeng Li, Tian Li, Xianzhi Meng, Jie Chen, Jialing Bao, Junhong Wei, Bing Han, Qingtao Shen, Louis M. Weiss, Zeyang Zhou, Mengxian Long, Guoqing Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-02-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
microsporidia
polar tube
polar filament
vesicle
polaroplast
sporoplasm membrane
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02749-23

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