Parasitophorous vacuole membranes of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum lack the lipid asymmetry characteristic of host cell plasma membranes
Rikako Konishi, Yuri Nakashima, Tatsunori Masatani, Masahito Asada, Hakimi Hassan, Kayoko Fukuda, Sayuri Kuriyama, Yoshifumi Nishikawa, Osamu Kaneko, Vern B. Carruthers, Akikazu Fujita
The paper analyzes lipid asymmetry in parasitophorous vacuole membranes of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, finding symmetric distribution of key lipids unlike host cell membranes.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes · Aug 14, 2026Peer-reviewedCell Biology