The essential malaria protein PfCyRPA targets glycans to invade erythrocytes

Summary: Plasmodium falciparum is a human-adapted apicomplexan parasite that causes the most dangerous form of malaria. P. falciparum cysteine-rich protective antigen (PfCyRPA) is an invasion complex protein essential for erythrocyte invasion. The precise role of PfCyRPA in this process has not been...

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Published in:	Cell Reports
Main Authors:	Christopher J. Day, Paola Favuzza, Sabrina Bielfeld, Thomas Haselhorst, Leonie Seefeldt, Julia Hauser, Lucy K. Shewell, Christian Flueck, Jessica Poole, Freda E.-C. Jen, Anja Schäfer, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Tim-W. Gilberger, Camila Tenorio França, Manoj T. Duraisingh, Marco Tamborrini, Nicolas M.B. Brancucci, Christof Grüring, Michael Filarsky, Michael P. Jennings, Gerd Pluschke
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2024-04-01
Subjects:	CP: Microbiology
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124724003401