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SUBMITTER: Moon RW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933575 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moon Robert W RW Sharaf Hazem H Hastings Claire H CH Ho Yung Shwen YS Nair Mridul B MB Rchiad Zineb Z Knuepfer Ellen E Ramaprasad Abhinay A Mohring Franziska F Amir Amirah A Yusuf Noor A NA Hall Joanna J Almond Neil N Lau Yee Ling YL Pain Arnab A Blackman Michael J MJ Holder Anthony A AA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160614 26
The dominant cause of malaria in Malaysia is now Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic parasite of cynomolgus macaque monkeys found throughout South East Asia. Comparative genomic analysis of parasites adapted to in vitro growth in either cynomolgus or human RBCs identified a genomic deletion that includes the gene encoding normocyte-binding protein Xa (NBPXa) in parasites growing in cynomolgus RBCs but not in human RBCs. Experimental deletion of the NBPXa gene in parasites adapted to growth in human ...[more]