Movie 2.

LD contact sites. Rendered 3D FIB-SEM data of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells. Segmented organelles with contact sites: Lipid droplets (LDs), endoplasmic reticulum (ER), nuclei (N), digestive vacuole (DV), Mitochondria (M) and uptake sites (US) in different intraerythrocytic stages.

Lipid droplet dynamics are essential for the development of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Jiwon Lee, Kai Matuschewski, Giel van Dooren, Alexander G. Maier, and Melanie Rug

J Cell Sci 2024. 137:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jcs.262162