...Mana Masui; Phillip K. Yamamoto; Nobuaki Kono ABSTRACT Myxomycetes are multinucleate unicellular organisms. They form a Plasmodium that moves by protoplasmic flow and prey on microorganisms. When encountering intraspecifics, the plasmodium has the capacity for ‘fusion’, actively approaching...

...Ravi Jillapalli; Sunil Kumar Narwal; Surendra Kumar Kolli; Babu S. Mastan; Rameswara Reddy Segireddy; Sandeep Dey; Pratik Narain Srivastava; Satish Mishra; Kota Arun Kumar ABSTRACT In Plasmodium , protein kinases govern key biological processes of the parasite life cycle involved...

... structures such as the microtubule-organizing centre (MTOC) during mitosis. They are also major components of the basal body of flagella and cilia. In Plasmodium spp., the parasite that causes malaria, mitosis is closed during asexual replication and the MTOC is embedded within the intact nuclear membrane...

... cells such as parasitic protozoa and cancer cells. Polyamine biosynthesis inhibitors, such as Elfornithine, are now being considered for cancer prevention and have been used effectively against Trypanosoma brucei . Inhibitors of polyamine biosynthesis have caused growth arrest of Plasmodium falciparum...

... here that SG formation is not amongst the strategies used for elimination of parasites from hepatocytes. Neither cell traversal, sporozoite invasion, nor rapid parasite growth leads to the formation of SGs. Furthermore, Plasmodium berghei infection does not compromise the ability of infected cells...

... parasites, including Plasmodium and Toxoplasma , that are clinically important pathogens affecting humans and livestock. Malaria parasites belonging to the genus Plasmodium possess a pellicle comprised of a plasmalemma and inner membrane complex (IMC), which is implicated in parasite motility and invasion...