Perforin-like protein PPLP2 permeabilizes the red blood cell membrane during egress of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 709-733

  Wirth, Christine C ^a   Glushakova, Svetlana ^b   Scheuermayer, Matthias ^c   Repnik, Urska ^d   Garg, Swati ^e   Schaack, Dominik ^c   Kachman, Marika M ^b   Weißbach, Tim ^a   Zimmerberg, Joshua ^b   Dandekar, Thomas ^c   Griffiths, Gareth ^d   Chitnis, Chetan E ^e   Singh, Shailja ^e,f   Fischer, Rainer ^a,g   Pradel, Gabriele ^a,g  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^f SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; EQUINATOXIN; EQUINATOXIN II; PERFORIN LIKE PROTEIN 2; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PERFORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; HEMOLYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; SCHIZONT; TROPHOZOITE; WILD TYPE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; PERFORIN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

EID: 84898538867     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12288     Document Type: Article

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