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Methods to Investigate the Regulatory Role of Small RNAs and Ribosomal Occupancy of Plasmodium falciparum
Published on: December 4, 2015
Novel secretory pathways in Plasmodium?
D Mattei1, G E Ward, G Langsley
1Unité de Biologie des Interactions Hôte-Parasite, URA 1960, Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France.
Abstract:
The secretion of proteins from intraerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum into the infected host cell is still poorly understood. A recent proposal that two distinct, mutually exclusive, secretory compartments may exist within the parasite cell has received much attention. Denise Mattei, Gary Ward, Gordon Langsley and Klaus Lingelbach here critically discuss the data on which this model is based, and then they address a more general question: to what extent are unusual aspects of protein secretion in Plasmodium unique among eukaryotic cells?
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