Movie S5.
Video of Maurer’s cleft movement in a stage V gametocyte. RBCs infected with stage V gametocytes (3D7 strain) were labeled with BODIPY-ceramide and subjected to live-cell imaging. Mobile punctate membrane-bound structures are observed in the host RBC cytoplasm.
Reversible host cell remodeling underpins deformability changes in malaria parasite sexual blood stages
PNAS. 2016. 113:4800-4805 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520194113