A New Role for an Old Antimicrobial: Lysozyme c-1 Can Function to Protect Malaria Parasites in Anopheles Mosquitoes

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium requires an obligatory life stage in its mosquito host. The parasites encounter a number of insults while journeying through this host and have developed mechanisms to avoid host defenses. Lysozymes are a family of important antimicrobial immune effectors produced by mosquitoe...

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Autores principales: Kajla, Mayur K., Shi, Lei, Li, Bin, Luckhart, Shirley, Li, Jianyong, Paskewitz, Susan M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21573077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019649

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21573077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019649

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