leishporin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of Leishmania + porin
Noun
[edit]leishporin (plural leishporins)
- (biochemistry) A porin isolated from species of Leishmania
- 2015 October 30, “Distinct Macrophage Fates after in vitro Infection with Different Species of Leishmania : Induction of Apoptosis by Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, but Not by Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Based on our findings that Leishmania have a pore-forming cytolysin that we call leishporin, we have been proposing that amastigotes egress from the macrophages is mediated by pore formation on the parasitophorous vacuole and the plasma membrane.