Catarina Martins Freire

This study shows that complete absence of GLUT1 in human erythroid cells does not impair differentiation or membrane properties, but leads to metabolic changes and increased oxidative stress.

The paper shows that Plasmodium falciparum invasion of red blood cells does not require basigin's interaction with MCT1, as invasion remains unaffected by disrupting this interaction or removing the basigin transmembrane domain.