Evolution of Fitness Cost-Neutral Mutant PfCRT Conferring P. falciparum 4-Aminoquinoline Drug Resistance Is Accompanied by Altered Parasite Metabolism and Digestive Vacuole Physiology

Southeast Asia is an epicenter of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum strains. Selective pressures on the subcontinent have recurrently produced several allelic variants of parasite drug resistance genes, including the P. falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt). Despite significa...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:PLoS Pathog
Main Authors: Gabryszewski, Stanislaw J., Dhingra, Satish K., Combrinck, Jill M., Lewis, Ian A., Callaghan, Paul S., Hassett, Matthew R., Siriwardana, Amila, Henrich, Philipp P., Lee, Andrew H., Gnädig, Nina F., Musset, Lise, Llinás, Manuel, Egan, Timothy J., Roepe, Paul D., Fidock, David A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Subjects:
Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5104409/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27832198
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005976
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items