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SUBMITTER: van Dooren GG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533231 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Dooren Giel G GG Tomova Cveta C Agrawal Swati S Humbel Bruno M BM Striepen Boris B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080829 36
Apicomplexan parasites harbor a secondary plastid that has lost the ability to photosynthesize yet is essential for the parasite to multiply and cause disease. Bioinformatic analyses predict that 5-10% of all proteins encoded in the parasite genome function within this organelle. However, the mechanisms and molecules that mediate import of such large numbers of cargo proteins across the four membranes surrounding the plastid remain elusive. In this work, we identify a highly diverged member of t ...[more]