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Vital role for the Plasmodium actin capping protein (CP) beta-subunit in motility of malaria sporozoites

Successful malaria transmission from the mosquito vector to the mammalian host depends crucially on active sporozoite motility. Sporozoite locomotion and host cell invasion are driven by the parasite's own actin/myosin motor. A unique feature of this motor machinery is the presence of very shor...

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Autores principales: Ganter, Markus, Schüler, Herwig, Matuschewski, Kai
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06828.x