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SUBMITTER: Le Chat L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2075530 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Le Chat Ludovic L Sinden Robert E RE Dessens Johannes T JT
Molecular and biochemical parasitology 20070202 1
The malaria parasite encodes a wide range of proteases necessary to facilitate its many developmental transitions in vertebrate and insect hosts. Amongst these is a predicted cysteine protease structurally related to caspases, named Plasmodium metacaspase 1 (PxMC1). We have generated Plasmodium berghei parasites in which the PbMC1coding sequence is removed and replaced with a green fluorescent reporter gene to investigate the expression of PbMC1, its contribution to parasite development, and its ...[more]