Electron tomography of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites reveals core cellular events that underpin erythrocyte invasion

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1457-1472

  Hanssen, Eric ^a   Dekiwadia, Chaitali ^a   Riglar, David T ^b,c   Rug, Melanie ^b,c,f   Lemgruber, Leandro ^d,g   Cowman, Alan F ^b,c   Cyrklaff, Marek ^d   Kudryashev, Mikhail ^e   Frischknecht, Friedrich ^d   Baum, Jake ^b,c   Ralph, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84881546281     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12132     Document Type: Article

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