Link to Pubmed [PMID] – 34883062
Link to DOI – S1931-3128(21)00513-810.1016/j.chom.2021.11.007
Cell Host Microbe 2021 12; 29(12): 1732-1734
Amino acid deprivation from reduced hemoglobin degradation in Pfkelch13 artemisinin-resistant parasites reduces fitness. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Mesén-Ramírez et al. decipher the role of nutrient permeable channel activity within the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane to compensate for this fitness cost in asexual blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites.