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It has been shown that the entry of the malaria parasite into the red blood cell requires the presence of ATP in the host cell cytoplasm1,2. In red blood cell ghosts that contain no ATP the receptor on the extracellular surface remains in place and parasites will bind to the membrane, but will not enter3. ATP is thus necessary for one of the steps4 in the invasion sequence that follows recognition and attachment. The process of entry appears to involve the active participation of the host cell membrane cytoskeleton5. We have suggested2 that the function of the intracellular ATP may be to regulate phosphorylation of the cytoskeleton. We now present evidence that the activity of the membrane-associated cyclic AMP-independent kinase of the red blood cell is inseparable from invasion; the active substrate may be spectrin.
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Rangachari, K., Dluzewski, A., Wilson, R. et al. Control of malarial invasion by phosphorylation of the host cell membrane cytoskeleton. Nature 324, 364–365 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/324364a0
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