Plasmodium vivax Merozoite Surface Protein 1 Paralog as a Mediator of Parasite Adherence to Reticulocytes-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Plasmodium vivax Merozoite Surface Protein 1 Paralog as a Mediator of Parasite Adherence to Reticulocytes

Published:2018-09 Issue:9 Volume:86 Page:
ISSN:0019-9567
Container-title:Infection and Immunity
language:en
Short-container-title:Infect Immun

Author:

Han Jin-Hee¹,Cho Jee-Sun²,Cheng Yang¹,Muh Fauzi¹,Yoo Won Gi³,Russell Bruce²,Nosten Francois⁴⁵,Na Sunghun⁶,Ha Kwon-Soo⁷,Park Won Sun⁸,Hong Seok-Ho⁹,Han Eun-Taek¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medical Environmental Biology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

2. Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, National University Health System, Singapore

3. Department of Medical Environmental Biology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

4. Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand

5. Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

6. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kangwon National University Hospital, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

7. Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

8. Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

9. Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

Abstract

Plasmodium vivax parasites preferentially invade reticulocytes in human beings. P. vivax merozoite surface protein 1 (PvMSP1) and PvMSP1 paralog (PvMSP1P) may have important functions in reticulocyte adherence during invasion.

Funder

National Research Foundation of Korea

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/IAI.00239-18

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