The ESCRT-III machinery participates in the production of extracellular vesicles and protein export during Plasmodium falciparum infection
Y. Avalos-Padilla, V. N. Georgiev, E. Lantero, S. Pujals, R. Verhoef, L. N. Borgheti-Cardoso, L. Albertazzi, R. Dimova, X. Fernandez-Busquets
This study shows that Plasmodium falciparum uses its ESCRT-III machinery, recruited via PfBro1 and PfVps32/PfVps60, to produce extracellular vesicles during infection.
bioRxiv · Nov 24, 2020Microbiology