RIFINs are adhesins implicated in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Suchi Goel,Mia Palmkvist,Kirsten Moll,Nicolas Joannin,Patricia Lara,Reetesh Raj Akhouri,Nasim Moradi,Karin Öjemalm,Mattias Westman,Davide Angeletti,Hanna Kjellin,Janne Lehtiö,Ola Blixt,Lars Ideström,Carl G. Gahmberg,Jill R. Storry,Annika K. Hult,Martin L. Olsson,Gunnar von Heijne,IngMarie Nilsson,Mats Wahlgren

RIFINs are adhesins implicated in severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

2015

Goel et al. report that RIFINs mediate rosetting of Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocytes in vitro, a phenotype that is associated with severe disease in humans

Keywords:

Virology
Bacterial adhesin
Plasmodium falciparum
Immunology
Malaria
Biology
Membrane protein
severe disease
Hematology
Phenotype
In vitro
Internal medicine

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