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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-1-10
pubmed:abstractText
The malaria parasite invades the terminally differentiated erythrocytes, where it grows and multiplies surrounded by a parasitophorous vacuole. Plasmodium blood stages translocate newly synthesized proteins outside the parasitophorous vacuole and direct them to various erythrocyte compartments, including the cytoskeleton and the plasma membrane. Here, we show that the remodeling of the host cell directed by the parasite also includes the recruitment of dematin, an actin-binding protein of the erythrocyte membrane skeleton and its repositioning to the parasite. Internalized dematin was found associated with Plasmodium 14-3-3, which belongs to a family of conserved multitask molecules. We also show that, in vitro, the dematin-14-3-3 interaction is strictly dependent on phosphorylation of dematin at Ser(124) and Ser(333), belonging to two 14-3-3 putative binding motifs. This study is the first report showing that a component of the erythrocyte spectrin-based membrane skeleton is recruited by the malaria parasite following erythrocyte infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1083-351X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
286
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1227-36
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21084299-14-3-3 Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Blood Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Cell Fractionation, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Cytoskeletal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Cytoskeleton, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Erythrocyte Membrane, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Malaria, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Organisms, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Plasmodium berghei, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Plasmodium falciparum, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:21084299-Recombinant Proteins
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Dematin, a component of the erythrocyte membrane skeleton, is internalized by the malaria parasite and associates with Plasmodium 14-3-3.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't