Exoerythrocytic Plasmodium Parasites Secrete a Cysteine Protease Inhibitor Involved in Sporozoite Invasion and Capable of Blocking Cell Death of Host Hepatocytes

• Annika Rennenberg,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Christine Lehmann,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Anna Heitmann,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Tina Witt,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Guido Hansen,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Krishna Nagarajan,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Christina Deschermeier,

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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• Vito Turk,

  Affiliation Josef Stefan Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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• Rolf Hilgenfeld,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Volker T. Heussler

  * E-mail: heussler@bni-hamburg.de

  Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Molecular Parasitology, Hamburg, Germany

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