Phosphorylation of the VAR2CSA extracellular region is associated with enhanced adhesive properties to the placental receptor CSA.

Plasmodium falciparum is the main cause of disease and death from malaria. P. falciparum virulence resides in the ability of infected erythrocytes (IEs) to sequester in various tissues through the interaction between members of the polymorphic P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) ad...

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Main Authors: Dominique Dorin-Semblat, Marilou Tétard, Aurélie Claës, Jean-Philippe Semblat, Sébastien Dechavanne, Zaineb Fourati, Romain Hamelin, Florence Armand, Graziella Matesic, Sofia Nunes-Silva, Anand Srivastava, Stéphane Gangnard, Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Marc Moniatte, Christian Doerig, Artur Scherf, Benoît Gamain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000308