Maurer's clefts of Plasmodium falciparum are secretory organelles that concentrate virulence protein reporters for delivery to the host erythrocyte

Blood

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2418-2425

  Bhattacharjee, Souvik ^a   Van Ooij, Christiaan ^a   Balu, Bharath ^b,c   Adams, John H ^b,c   Haldar, Kasturi ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSGENE;

EID: 41349111288     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-09-115279     Document Type: Article

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