A spiral scaffold underlies cytoadherent knobs in Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes

Blood

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 343-351

  Watermeyer, Jean M ^a   Hale, Victoria L ^a   Hackett, Fiona ^b   Clare, Daniel K ^a   Cutts, Erin E ^c   Vakonakis, Ioannis ^c   Fleck, Roland A ^d   Blackman, Michael J ^b,e   Saibil, Helen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETON; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FREEZE DRYING; FREEZE FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHIZONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYTOSKELETON; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84958213399     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-10-674002     Document Type: Article

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