The malarial host-targeting signal is conserved in the Irish potato famine pathogen.

Animal and plant eukaryotic pathogens, such as the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and the potato late blight agent Phytophthora infestans, are widely divergent eukaryotic microbes. Yet they both produce secretory virulence and pathogenic proteins that alter host cell functions. In P. f...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.0020050