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PfMDR1: mechanisms of transport modulation by functional polymorphisms.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Ferreira Pedro Eduardo, Holmgren Gabrielle, Veiga Maria Isabel, Uhlén Per, Kaneko Akira, Gil José Pedro
Abstract excerpt
ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are efflux pumps frequently associated with multidrug resistance in many biological systems, including malaria. Antimalarial drug-resistance involves an ABC transporter, PfMDR1, a homologue of P-glycoprotein in humans. Twenty years of research have shown that several single nucleotide polymorphisms in pfmdr1 modulate in vivo and/or in vitro drug susceptibility. The...
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