Revealing the Sequence and Resulting Cellular Morphology of Receptor-Ligand Interactions during Plasmodium falciparum Invasion of Erythrocytes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Weiss, Greta E ^a   Gilson, Paul R ^a,b   Taechalertpaisarn, Tana ^a,c   Tham, Wai Hong ^c,d   de Jong, Nienke W M ^a   Harvey, Katherine L ^a,c   Fowkes, Freya J I ^a,b,c   Barlow, Paul N ^e   Rayner, Julian C ^f   Wright, Gavin J ^f   Cowman, Alan F ^c,d   Crabb, Brendan S ^a,b,c  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; CALCIUM ION; CD147 ANTIGEN; CYTOCHALASIN D; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MYOSIN; PEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RON2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN I, PLASMODIUM; CALCIUM; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; RH5 PROTEIN, PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL INVASION; CELL INVASION ASSAY; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE ECHINOCYTOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTE PARAMETERS; GENE DELETION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERNALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIGAND BINDING; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM (HB3); PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM 3D7; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TIGHT JUNCTION; VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; ERYTHROCYTE; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD147; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CALCIUM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; ERYTHROCYTES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIGANDS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEROZOITES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84924371171     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004670     Document Type: Article

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