Cd36—a host receptor necessary for malaria parasites to establish and maintain infection

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Anna Bachmann et al. from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany Biology Department, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany have published the paper: CD36u2014A Host Receptor Necessary for Malaria Parasites to Establish and Maintain Infection, in the Journal: Microorganisms 2022, 10, 2356. of /2022/
• what: CD36 is the main receptor for Pf IE cytoadhesion to the vascular endothelium.

SUMMARY

Pf EMP1 represents the main target of the humoral immune_response, but due to the presence of numerous copies of var genes encoding Pf EMP1, the parasite can sequentially present . . .

 



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