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Plasmodium's bottomless pit: properties and functions of the malaria parasite's digestive vacuole.

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Published in 2022 at "Trends in parasitology"

DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2022.02.010

Abstract: During intraerythrocytic growth, the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum degrades up to 80% of the host cell's hemoglobin inside an acidified organelle called the digestive vacuole (DV). Here, the globin chains are broken down by… read more here.

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