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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Entamoeba histolytica
SUBMITTER: Gretchen Ehrenkaufer
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21522 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Eukaryotic cell 20100625 8
Entamoeba histolytica is a deep-branching eukaryotic pathogen. Rhomboid proteases are intramembrane serine proteases, which cleave transmembrane proteins in, or in close proximity to, their transmembrane domain. We have previously shown that E. histolytica contains a single functional rhomboid protease (EhROM1) and has unique substrate specificity. EhROM1 is present on the trophozoite surface and relocalizes to internal vesicles during erythrophagocytosis and to the base of the cap during surfac ...[more]