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Chemical propulsion of hemozoin crystal motion in malaria parasites

2025-04-27

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Malaria parasites infect red blood cells where they digest host hemoglobin and release free heme inside a lysosome-like organelle called the food vacuole. To detoxify excess heme, parasites form hemozoin crystals that rapidly tumble inside this compartment. Hemozoin formation is critical for parasite survival and central to antimalarial drug activity. Although the static structural properties of hemozoin have been...

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Literature Corpus work: d0040f2f-5846-5749-a4e4-4240346dbc7f
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.25.650681

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