Order and specificity of the Plasmodium falciparum hemoglobin degradation pathway.

The human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, degrades nearly all its host cell hemoglobin during a short segment of its intraerythrocytic development. This massive catabolic process occurs in an acidic organelle, the digestive vacuole. Aspartic and cysteine proteases have been implicated in th...

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Main Authors: Gluzman, I Y, Francis, S E, Oksman, A, Smith, C E, Duffin, K L, Goldberg, D E
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1994
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC294190/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8163662
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