ERC Starting Grant · 2024
The unusual role of a highly divergent Arp2/3 complex in the mosquito stages of malaria parasites.
The malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites often use highly divergent proteins to regulate fundamental biological processes, such as sexual replication in the mosquito. Therefore, the molecular and cellular biology underlying parasite development is often little understood, especially during the mosquito stages, a major bottleneck in the Plasmodium life cycle. Recently, I identified an unconventional, Plasmodium-specific actin-related protein 2/3 (Arp2/3) complex that mediates DNA segregation during male gamete formation and is essential for development of the main replicative mosquito stage, the oocyst. Understanding the regulation and function of this structurally and functionally divergent…
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