A Plasmodium plasma membrane reporter reveals membrane dynamics by live-cell microscopy

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 9740 - 14
• Main Authors: Burda, Paul-Christian, Schaffner, Marco, Kaiser, Gesine, Roques, Magali, Zuber, Benoît, Heussler, Volker T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.08.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/326/417/1716; 631/80/2373; 631/80/313; Developmental stages; Electron microscopy; Endoplasmic reticulum; Humanities and Social Sciences; Life cycles; Lipids; Liver; Membrane proteins; Membranes; multidisciplinary; Parasites; Plasma; Plasmodium; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

During asexual replication within the Anopheles mosquito and their vertebrate host, Plasmodium parasites depend on the generation of a massive amount of new plasma membrane to produce thousands of daughter parasites. How the parasite plasma membrane (PPM) is formed has mostly been studied by electro...