The merozoite has landed: reticulocyte-binding-like ligands and the specificity of erythrocyte recognition.

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Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte invasion depends on several imperfectly understood multiprotein families. Two recent papers have shifted our understanding of the P. falciparum reticulocyte-binding-like family to the level of individual amino acids by identifying an erythrocyte-binding domain in one ligand and showing that polymorphisms in another can change the species specificity of erythrocyte binding....

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