A Plastid Protein That Evolved from Ubiquitin and Is Required for Apicoplast Protein Import in Toxoplasma gondii
Apicomplexan parasites cause a variety of important infectious diseases, including malaria, toxoplasma encephalitis, and severe diarrhea due to Cryptosporidium. Most apicomplexans depend on an organelle called the apicoplast which is derived from a red algal endosymbiont. The apicoplast is essential...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-06-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/3/e00950-17 |