Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance links to pvcrt transcription in a genetic cross

  • Juliana M. Sá,
  • Sarah R. Kaslow,
  • Roberto R. Moraes Barros,
  • Nicholas F. Brazeau,
  • Christian M. Parobek,
  • Dingyin Tao,
  • Rebecca E. Salzman,
  • Tyler J. Gibson,
  • Soundarapandian Velmurugan,
  • Michael A. Krause,
  • Viviana Melendez-Muniz,
  • Whitney A. Kite,
  • Paul K. Han,
  • Richard T. Eastman,
  • Adam Kim,
  • Evan G. Kessler,
  • Yonas Abebe,
  • Eric R. James,
  • Sumana Chakravarty,
  • Sachy Orr-Gonzalez,
  • Lynn E. Lambert,
  • Theresa Engels,
  • Marvin L. Thomas,
  • Pius S. Fasinu,
  • David Serre,
  • Robert W. Gwadz,
  • Larry Walker,
  • Derrick K. DeConti,
  • Jianbing Mu,
  • Jeffrey A. Bailey,
  • B. Kim Lee Sim,
  • Stephen L. Hoffman,
  • Michael P. Fay,
  • Rhoel R. Dinglasan,
  • Jonathan J. Juliano,
  • Thomas E. Wellems

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12256-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, a cross of Plasmodium vivax malaria parasites links a chloroquine resistance (CQR) phenotype to a 76 kb region of chromosome 1 and greater expression of pvcrt, an ortholog of the Plasmodium falciparum CQR transporter gene.