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PfRON3 is an erythrocyte-binding protein and a potential blood-stage vaccine candidate antigen

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Title
PfRON3 is an erythrocyte-binding protein and a potential blood-stage vaccine candidate antigen
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Malaria Journal, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-13-490
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Xin Zhao, Zhiguang Chang, Zhiwei Tu, Shengchao Yu, Xiaoyan Wei, Jianhua Zhou, Huijun Lu, Ning Jiang, Qijun Chen

Abstract

Erythrocyte invasion by merozoites is an essential step in Plasmodium falciparum infection and leads to subsequent disease pathology. Proteins both on the merozoite surface and secreted from the apical organelles (micronemes, rhoptries and dense granules) mediate the invasion of erythrocytes; some of the molecules have been regarded as targets in the development of an anti-malaria vaccine. Recently, a subgroup of rhoptry neck proteins (PfRON2, PfRON4 and PfRON5) associated with the microneme protein apical membrane antigen AMA1 has been described as components of the moving junction complex that assists merozoite invasion into erythrocytes. However, unlike PfRON2, PfRON4 and PfRON5, the latest study suggested that PfRON3 might be located in the rhoptry bulb and participates in a novel PfRON complex (PfRON2, 3 and 4), but does not form a complex with AMA1. Additionally, the full-length PfRON3 protein possesses three transmembrane regions at the N-terminus, which is highly conserved among RON3 orthologues in the genus Plasmodium, Toxoplasma gondii and Eimeria tenella. Overall, these findings suggest that PfRON3 may play an important role in merozoite invasion into erythrocytes.

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Unknown 39 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 28%
Student > Master 8 21%
Researcher 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 2 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 15%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 3 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 4 10%
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