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Investigation of the Plasmodium falciparum Food Vacuole through Inducible Expression of the Chloroquine Resistance Transporter (PfCRT)

Haemoglobin degradation during the erythrocytic life stages is the major function of the food vacuole (FV) of Plasmodium falciparum and the target of several anti-malarial drugs that interfere with this metabolic pathway, killing the parasite. Two multi-spanning food vacuole membrane proteins are kn...

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Autores principales: Ehlgen, Florian, Pham, James S., de Koning-Ward, Tania, Cowman, Alan F., Ralph, Stuart A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3374814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22719945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038781