Inverted recruitment of autophagy proteins to the Plasmodium berghei parasitophorous vacuole membrane.

Selective autophagy and related mechanisms can act as variable defense mechanisms against pathogens and can therefore be considered as intracellular immune responses. When in hepatocytes, Plasmodium parasites reside in a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) and the PV membrane (PVM) is the main contact site...

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Main Authors: Jacqueline Schmuckli-Maurer, Vera Reber, Rahel Wacker, Annina Bindschedler, Anthony Zakher, Volker Theo Heussler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5571950?pdf=render