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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 9-19Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2012.05.014
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- Wellcome Trust [WT098051, 079643/Z/06/Z]
- Medical Research Council [G0501670]
- Marie Curie Fellowship [PIEF-GA-2008-220180, PIEF-GA-2009-253899]
- EMBO Long Term Fellowship [ALTF 45-2009]
- MRC [G0501670] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0501670] Funding Source: researchfish
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Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) play key regulatory roles in the life cycle of the malaria parasite, but in many cases their precise molecular functions are unknown. Using the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei, we show that CDPK1, which is known to be essential in the asexual blood stage of the parasite, is expressed in all life stages and is indispensable during the sexual mosquito life-cycle stages. Knockdown of CDPK1 in sexual stages resulted in developmentally arrested parasites and prevented mosquito transmission, and these effects were independent of the previously proposed function for CDPK1 in regulating parasite motility. In-depth translational and transcriptional profiling of arrested parasites revealed that CDPK1 translationally activates mRNA species in the developing zygote that in macrogametes remain repressed via their 3' and 5'UTRs. These findings indicate that CDPK1 is a multifunctional protein that translationally regulates mRNAs to ensure timely and stage-specific protein expression.
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