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Malaria parasite LIMP protein regulates sporozoite gliding motility and infectivity in mosquito and mammalian hosts

Gliding motility allows malaria parasites to migrate and invade tissues and cells in different hosts. It requires parasite surface proteins to provide attachment to host cells and extracellular matrices. Here, we identify the Plasmodium protein LIMP (the name refers to a gliding phenotype in the spo...

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Autores principales: Santos, Jorge M, Egarter, Saskia, Zuzarte-Luís, Vanessa, Kumar, Hirdesh, Moreau, Catherine A, Kehrer, Jessica, Pinto, Andreia, da Costa, Mário, Franke-Fayard, Blandine, Janse, Chris J, Frischknecht, Friedrich, Mair, Gunnar R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28525314
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24109