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Abstract
The life cycle of the malaria parasite contains three distinct invasive forms, or zoites. For at least two of these--the sporozoite and the blood-stage merozoite--invasion into their respective host cell requires the activity of parasite proteases. This review summarizes the evidence for this, discusses selected well-described proteolytic modifications linked to invasion, and describes recent progress towards identifying the proteases involved.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15339265 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00437.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Microbiol ISSN: 1462-5814 Impact factor: 3.715