Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Co-option of Plasmodium falciparum PP1 for egress from host erythrocytes

  • Aditya S. Paul,
  • Alexandra Miliu,
  • Joao A. Paulo,
  • Jonathan M. Goldberg,
  • Arianna M. Bonilla,
  • Laurence Berry,
  • Marie Seveno,
  • Catherine Braun-Breton,
  • Aziz L. Kosber,
  • Brendan Elsworth,
  • Jose S. N. Arriola,
  • Maryse Lebrun,
  • Steven P. Gygi,
  • Mauld H. Lamarque,
  • Manoj T. Duraisingh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17306-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Plasmodium protein phosphatase PP1 is essential for the asexual proliferation of malaria parasites. Here the authors show that PP1 regulates egress of parasites from host red blood cells, integrating parasite intrinsic pathways with environmental signals for release into the bloodstream.