Roles of the Apicoplast Across the Life Cycles of Rodent and Human Malaria Parasites

Overview

Journal J Eukaryot Microbiol

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Microbiology
Parasitology

Date 2022 Sep 7

PMID 36070203

Authors

Hayley D Buchanan

Christopher D Goodman

Geoffrey I McFadden

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Abstract

Malaria parasites are diheteroxenous, requiring two hosts-a vertebrate and a mosquito-to complete their life cycle. Mosquitoes are the definitive host where malaria parasite sex occurs, and vertebrates are the intermediate host, supporting asexual amplification and more significant geographic spread. In this review, we examine the roles of a single malaria parasite compartment, the relict plastid known as the apicoplast, at each life cycle stage. We focus mainly on two malaria parasite species-Plasmodium falciparum and P. berghei-comparing the changing, yet ever crucial, roles of their apicoplasts.

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