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The antimalarial drug resistance protein Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter binds chloroquine.
Biochemistry - 6 Jul 2004
Zhang Hanbang, Paguio Michelle, Roepe Paul D
Abstract excerpt
Recently, mutations in the novel polytopic integral membrane protein PfCRT were shown to cause chloroquine resistance (CQR) in the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum. PfCRT is not a member of the well-known family of ABC proteins that have previously been associated with other drug resistance phenomena. Thus, the mechanism(s) whereby mutant PfCRT molecules confer antimalarial drug resistance is (are)...
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