A Plasmodium berghei putative serine-threonine kinase 2 (PBANKA_0311400) is required for late liver stage development and timely initiation of blood stage infection
Authors: Ravi Jillapalli; Sunil Kumar Narwal; Surendra Kumar Kolli; Babu S. Mastan; Rameswara Reddy Segireddy; Sandeep Dey; Pratik Narain Srivastava; Satish Mishra; Kota Arun Kumar
Secreted protein with altered thrombospondin repeat (SPATR) is essential for asexual blood stages but not required for hepatocyte invasion by the malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei