Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Functional profiles of orphan membrane transporters in the life cycle of the malaria parasite

  • Sanketha Kenthirapalan,
  • Andrew P. Waters,
  • Kai Matuschewski,
  • Taco W. A. Kooij

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10519
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The functions of many putative membrane transport proteins of malaria parasites are unknown. Here, Kenthirapalan et al. use mutant strains carrying targeted gene deletions to study the functions of 35 such proteins during the life cycle of Plasmodium bergheiin mosquito and mouse hosts.