Detection of the Rhoptry Neck Protein Complex in <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites and Its Contribution to Sporozoite Invasion of Salivary Glands

Detection of the Rhoptry Neck Protein Complex in <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites and Its Contribution to Sporozoite Invasion of Salivary Glands

ABSTRACT In the Plasmodium life cycle, two infectious stages of parasites, merozoites and sporozoites, share rhoptry and microneme apical structures. A crucial step during merozoite invasion of erythrocytes is the discharge to the host cell membrane of some rhoptry neck proteins as a complex, follow...

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Main Authors: Mamoru Nozaki, Minami Baba, Mayumi Tachibana, Naohito Tokunaga, Motomi Torii, Tomoko Ishino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-08-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
sporozoite
rhoptry
RON complex
salivary gland
Plasmodium
invasion
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00325-20

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00325-20

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