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How Malaria Parasites Acquire Nutrients From Their Host
Plasmodium parasites responsible for the disease malaria reside within erythrocytes. Inside this niche host cell, parasites internalize and digest host hemoglobin to source amino acids required for protein production. However, hemoglobin does not contain isoleucine, an amino acid essential for Plasm...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8027349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33842474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.649184 |