The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, traffics the virulence protein erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (EMP1) to the surface of infected red blood cells (RBCs) via membranous organelles known as the Maurer’s clefts. How EMP1 is trafficked from the clefts to its site of action at the RBC surface ...
ORGANISM(S): Plasmodium falciparum (isolate 3D7)