RALP1 Is a rhoptry neck erythrocyte-binding protein of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites and a potential blood-stage vaccine candidate antigen

• Main Authors: Daisuke Ito, Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Kazutoyo Miura, Tsutomu Yamasaki, Thangavelu U. Arumugam, Amporn Thongkukiatkul, Satoru Takeo, Eizo Takashima, Jetsumon Sattabongkot, Eun Taek Han, Carole A. Long, Motomi Torii, Takafumi Tsuboia
• Other Authors: Ehime University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/31848
• Institution: Mahidol University

Erythrocyte invasion by merozoites is an obligatory stage of Plasmodium infection and is essential to disease progression. Proteins in the apical organelles of merozoites mediate the invasion of erythrocytes and are potential malaria vaccine candidates. Rhoptry-associated, leucine zipper-like protei...