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Compensating P. falciparum artemisinin resistance.
Cell host & microbe - 8 Dec 2021
Platon Lucien, Cao Jun, Ménard Didier
Abstract excerpt
Amino acid deprivation from reduced hemoglobin degradation in Pfkelch13 artemisinin-resistant parasites reduces fitness. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Mesén-Ramírez et al. decipher the role of nutrient permeable channel activity within the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane to compensate for this fitness cost in asexual blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites.
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