The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum can sense environmental changes and respond by antigenic switching

The primary antigenic and virulence determinant of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a variant surface protein called PfEMP1. Different forms of PfEMP1 are encoded by a multicopy gene family called var, and switching between active genes enables the parasites to evade the antibody...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Victoria M., Visone, Joseph E., Harris, Chantal T., Florini, Francesca, Hadjimichael, Evi, Zhang, Xu, Gross, Mackensie R., Rhee, Kyu Y., Ben Mamoun, Choukri, Kafsack, Björn F. C., Deitsch, Kirk W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2023
Materias:
Biological Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37068249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302152120

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