Multiple essential functions of Plasmodium falciparum actin-1 during malaria blood-stage development
Abstract Background The phylum Apicomplexa includes Changing Cushion intracellular parasites causing immense global disease burden, the deadliest of them being the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which invades and replicates within erythrocytes.The cytoskeletal protein actin is well conserved within apicomplexans but divergent from ma