Schizont and merozoite culture was incubated overnight with 0.1µM cytochalasin D to inhibit invasion. Thin smeared on a glass slide, fixed in methanol, stained with rabbit anit-GAP45 polyclonal serum at 1:200 and secondary Alexa-Flor488 anti-Rabbit. Dual colour fluorescence images were captured using a Carl Zeiss Axioskop 2 microscope at 100x using Oil imersion. Nucleus is marked with DAPI. Scale bar indicate 1µM. Invading merozoite is shown with GAP45 clearly marking the periphery (shown to be the IMC by immuno-EM) and suggesting of localization to tight junction.

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