Detection of the Rhoptry Neck Protein Complex in <italic toggle="yes">Plasmodium</italic> Sporozoites and Its Contribution to Sporozoite Invasion of Salivary Glands
ABSTRACT In the Plasmodium life cycle, two infectious stages of parasites, merozoites and sporozoites, share rhoptry and microneme apical structures. A crucial step during merozoite invasion of erythrocytes is the discharge to the host cell membrane of some rhoptry neck proteins as a complex, follow...
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American Society for Microbiology
2020
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