Structural architecture and interplay of the nucleotide- and erythrocyte binding domain of the reticulocyte binding protein Py235 from Plasmodium yoelii

• Main Authors: Grüber, Ardina, Manimekalai, Malathy Sony Subramanian, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Grüber, Gerhard
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102563; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16865
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Human malaria is caused by the cyclical invasion of the host’s red blood cells (RBCs) by the invasive form of the parasite, the merozoite. The invasion of the RBC involves a range of parasite ligand receptor interactions, a process which is under intensive investigation. Two protein families are kno...