Purine Salvage Pathways in the Intraerythrocytic Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

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Purines enter the intraerythrocytic malaria parasite via a fast, low-affinity, broad-capacity process that can be attributed primarily to the parasite plasma membrane transporter PfNT1. The reliance of the parasite on PfNT1 makes this protein a worthy target for further investigation, while the determination of the roles played by PfNT2, PfNT3, and PfNT4 in parasite physiology should also prove interesting....

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