Video of Maurer’s cleft movement in a trophozoite-infected RBC. RBCs infected with trophozoite stage parasites (3D7 strain) were labeled with the membrane probe BODIPY-ceramide and subjected to live-cell imaging. Immobilized punctate membrane-bound structures are observed at the host RBC membrane.
Megan Dearnley, Trang Chu, Yao Zhang, Oliver Looker, Changjin Huang, Nectarios Klonis, Jeff Yeoman, Shannon Kenny, Mohit Arora, James M. Osborne, Rajesh Chandramohanadas, Sulin Zhang, Matthew W. A. Dixon, and Leann Tilley
PNAS. 2016. 113:4800-4805 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520194113