Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

An essential malaria protein defines the architecture of blood-stage and transmission-stage parasites

  • Sabrina Absalon,
  • Jonathan A. Robbins,
  • Jeffrey D. Dvorin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11449
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Blood-stage malaria parasites replicate through a specialised type of cell division known as schizogony. Here, Absalon et al. identify a parasite protein that is essential during schizogony for cytokinesis and formation of the inner membrane complex, the structural scaffold of daughter parasites.