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SUBMITTER: Santos JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855115 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell host & microbe 20170601 6
Obligate intracellular parasites must efficiently invade host cells in order to mature and be transmitted. For the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, invasion of host red blood cells (RBCs) is essential. Here we describe a parasite-specific transcription factor PfAP2-I, belonging to the Apicomplexan AP2 (ApiAP2) family, that is responsible for regulating the expression of genes involved in RBC invasion. Our genome-wide analysis by ChIP-seq shows that PfAP2-I interacts with a specific DNA mo ...[more]