A perforin-like protein mediates disruption of the erythrocyte membrane during egress of Plasmodium berghei male gametocytes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1438-1455

  Deligianni, Elena ^a   Morgan, Rhiannon N ^a,b   Bertuccini, Lucia ^c   Wirth, Christine C ^d,e   Silmon de Monerri, Natalie C ^f,g   Spanos, Lefteris ^a   Blackman, Michael J ^f   Louis, Christos ^a,b   Pradel, Gabriele ^d,e   Siden Kiamos, Inga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORIN; PERFORIN LIKE PROTEIN; SAPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GAMETOCYTE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; GERM CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PERFORIN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SAPONINS; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL;

PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 84880328162     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12131     Document Type: Article

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