Genetic diversity in new members of the reticulocyte binding protein family in Thai Plasmodium vivax isolates

• Main Authors: Varakorn Kosaisavee, Usa Lek-Uthai, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Anne Charlotte Grüner, Bruce Russell, Francois Nosten, Laurent Rénia, Georges Snounou
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/13483

Background: Plasmodium vivax merozoites specifically invade reticulocytes. Until recently, two reticulocyte-binding proteins (Pvrbp1 and Pvrbp2) expressed at the apical pole of the P. vivax merozoite were considered to be involved in reticulocyte recognition. The genome sequence recently obtained fo...