Malaria Parasite Invasion of the Mosquito Salivary Gland Requires Interaction between the Plasmodium TRAP and the Anopheles Saglin Proteins

Anil K. Ghosh; Martin Devenport; Deepa Jethwaney; Dario E. Kalume; Akhilesh Pandey; Vernon E. Anderson; Ali A. Sultan; Nirbhay Kumar; Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000265

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Malaria Parasite Invasion of the Mosquito Salivary Gland Requires Interaction between the Plasmodium TRAP and the Anopheles Saglin Proteins

Anil K. Ghosh,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Martin Devenport,

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Deepa Jethwaney,

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Dario E. Kalume,

Current address: Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-Fiocruz, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Biological Chemistry, Pathology, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Akhilesh Pandey,

Affiliation McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and Departments of Biological Chemistry, Pathology, and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Vernon E. Anderson,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Ali A. Sultan,

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Nirbhay Kumar ,

* E-mail: nkumar@jhsph.edu (NK); mlorena@jhsph.edu (MJ-L)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

* E-mail: nkumar@jhsph.edu (NK); mlorena@jhsph.edu (MJ-L)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Malaria Parasite Invasion of the Mosquito Salivary Gland Requires Interaction between the Plasmodium TRAP and the Anopheles Saglin Proteins

Anil K. Ghosh,
Martin Devenport,
Deepa Jethwaney,
Dario E. Kalume,
Akhilesh Pandey,
Vernon E. Anderson,
Ali A. Sultan,
Nirbhay Kumar,
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

Published: January 16, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000265

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