For decades, researchers have been wondering what gives red blood cells their characteristic curves, and now Fowler and her colleagues have the answer: myosin proteins tug on the red blood cell’s ...

Using purified proteins, Yeoh et al ... The SERA proteases might then disrupt the PV, and perhaps even the erythrocyte membrane, thereby enabling the merozoites to escape. Clarifying the roles ...

In human erythrocytes (red blood cells), oxidative stress significantly impacts the function of the Band 3 protein (B3p), a crucial membrane protein involved in anion exchange and maintaining ...

Cytoadhesion is facilitated by members of a protein family called "P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1"—or PfEMP1. Each parasite produces only one type of PfEMP1 at any time ...

Members of the protein family known as “P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1,” or PfEMP1, aid in cytoadhesion. Each parasite can flip between multiple forms of PfEMP1 to evade immune ...