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Authors: Manuel Glaser, Neil J. Bruce, Sungho Bosco Han, Rebecca C. Wade

Date Published: 13th May 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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Authors: Benedict-Tilman Berger, Marta Amaral, Daria B. Kokh, Ariane Nunes-Alves, Djordje Musil, Timo Heinrich, Martin Schröder, Rebecca Neil, Jing Wang, Iva Navratilova, Joerg Bomke, Jonathan M. Elkins, Susanne Müller, Matthias Frech, Rebecca C. Wade, Stefan Knapp

Date Published: 1st May 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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Authors: Giulia Paiardi, Maria Milanesi, Rebecca C. Wade, Pasqualina D’Ursi, Marco Rusnati

Date Published: 1st May 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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Authors: Debabrata Dey, Shir Marciano, Ariane Nunes-Alves, Vladimir Kiss, Rebecca C Wade, Gideon Schreiber

Date Published: 1st Apr 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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Authors: Outi M. H. Salo-Ahen, Ida Alanko, Rajendra Bhadane, Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin, Rodrigo Vargas Honorato, Shakhawath Hossain, André H. Juffer, Aleksei Kabedev, Maija Lahtela-Kakkonen, Anders Støttrup Larsen, Eveline Lescrinier, Parthiban Marimuthu, Muhammad Usman Mirza, Ghulam Mustafa, Ariane Nunes-Alves, Tatu Pantsar, Atefeh Saadabadi, Kalaimathy Singaravelu, Michiel Vanmeert

Date Published: 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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Author: Jan-Niklas Dohrke

Date Published: 2021

Publication Type: Master's Thesis

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During transmission of malaria-causing parasites from mosquito to mammal, Plasmodium sporozoites migrate at high speed within the skin to access the bloodstream and infect the liver. This unusual gliding motility is based on retrograde flow of membrane proteins and highly dynamic actin filaments that provide short tracks for a myosin motor. Using laser tweezers and parasite mutants, we previously suggested that actin filaments form macromolecular complexes with plasma membrane-spanning adhesins to generate force during migration. Mutations in the actin-binding region of profilin, a near ubiquitous actin-binding protein, revealed that loss of actin binding also correlates with loss of force production and motility. Here, we show that different mutations in profilin, that do not affect actin binding in vitro, still generate lower force during Plasmodium sporozoite migration. Lower force generation inversely correlates with increased retrograde flow suggesting that, like in mammalian cells, the slow down of flow to generate force is the key underlying principle governing Plasmodium gliding motility.

Authors: Catherine A. Moreau, Katharina A. Quadt, Henni Piirainen, Hirdesh Kumar, Saligram P. Bhargav, Léanne Strauss, Niraj H. Tolia, Rebecca C. Wade, Joachim P. Spatz, Inari Kursula, Friedrich Frischknecht

Date Published: 2021

Publication Type: Journal

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