This term describes a peculiar form of a tight junction that occurs during the host cell penetration process of motile stages of Apicomplexa, where material originating from the rhoptries and micronemes helps to form a short-time connection of the parasite to the host cell invagination so that the parasite can slip into the developing parasitophorous vacuole. Plasmodium .
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Moving Junction. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_2015-2
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