Figure 1.
SLC7A2 knockdown significantly impairs P. berghei intra-hepatic development. (a) Two different lines of Huh7 cells with stable knockdown of SLC7A2 were infected with luciferase-expressing P. berghei sporozoites and parasite load (luminescence) was assessed 48 h later. A scrambled shRNA sequence was used as a negative control. Error bars represent SEM. Pool of 4 independent experiments. (b) Quantification of the area of the EEFs in the 2 cell lines with SLC7A2 knockdown at 48 hpi by immunofluorescence microscopy. The knockdown efficiency of each shRNA sequence is indicated below each graph. Representative experiment out of 3 independent experiments. Both panels: Kruskal-Wallis with post-test Dunn’s. *p < 0.05 and ***p < 0.001.