The mature N-termini of Plasmodium effector proteins confer specificity of export

ABSTRACT The intraerythrocytic malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum exports hundreds of proteins into the host red blood cell (RBC). Most are targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by a stretch of hydrophobic amino acids and cleaved further downstream at a conserved motif called the Plasmodium...

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Main Authors: Muhammad M. Hasan, Alexander J. Polino, Sumit Mukherjee, Barbara Vaupel, Daniel E. Goldberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-10-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01215-23