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Bacterial orthologues indicate the malarial plastid gene ycf24 is essential.
Protist - 1 Dec 2000
Law A E, Mullineaux C W, Hirst E M, Saldanha J, Wilson R J
Abstract excerpt
ycf24 is a well conserved gene found in all major groups of bacteria, as well as on red algal plastid genomes and the vestigal plastid genome of apicomplexan pathogens like the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (ORF470). Some database annotations describe Ycf24 as an ABC transporter subunit, but we find the level of significance is low. To investigate ycf24's function we disrupted it in the cyanobacterium...
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