Malaria oocysts require circumsporozoite protein to evade mosquito immunity

Malaria oocysts require circumsporozoite protein to evade mosquito immunity

Circumsporozoite protein (CSP), the major surface protein of Plasmodium sporozoites, is important for parasite targeting to mosquito salivary glands and the mammalian liver. Here, Zhu et al. show that CSP is required for rodent malaria oocysts to evade mosquito immunity by inducing hemocyte nitratio...

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Main Authors: Feng Zhu, Hong Zheng, Suilin Chen, Kun Zhang, Xin Qin, Jingru Zhang, Taiping liu, Yongling Fan, Liting Wang, Xiaoxu Li, Jian Zhang, Wenyue Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30988-z

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30988-z

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