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SCIENCE
Volume 350, Issue 6264, Pages 1089-1092Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad3318
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- NIH [1R01GM101183-01A1]
- Transition to Independence Award [1K99AI111785-01A1]
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The invasion of a suitable host hepatocyte by mosquito-transmitted Plasmodium sporozoites is an essential early step in successful malaria parasite infection. Yet precisely how sporozoites target their host cell and facilitate productive infection remains largely unknown. We found that the hepatocyte EphA2 receptor was critical for establishing a permissive intracellular replication compartment, the parasitophorous vacuole. Sporozoites productively infected hepatocytes with high EphA2 expression, and the deletion of EphA2 protected mice from liver infection. Lack of host EphA2 phenocopied the lack of the sporozoite proteins P52 and P36. Our data suggest that P36 engages EphA2, which is likely to be a key step in establishing the permissive replication compartment.
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