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Characterization of Apicomplexan Amino Acid Transporters (ApiATs) in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Jan Stephan Wichers, Carolina van Gelder, Gwendolin Fuchs, Julia Mareike Ruge, Emma Pietsch, Josie L Ferreira, Soraya Safavi, Heidrun von Thien, Paul-Christian Burda, Paolo Mesén-Ramirez and 4 more

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Article in mSphere, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jan Stephan WichersCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0599-1742
Carolina van Gelder *Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8109-3098
Gwendolin Fuchs *Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9294-6984
Julia Mareike RugeCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6295-0293
Emma PietschCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4744-1666
Josie L FerreiraCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4411-6131
Soraya SafaviCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9989-0952
Heidrun von ThienCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.
Paul-Christian BurdaCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0461-4352
Paolo Mesén-RamirezBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicinegrid.424065.1, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7842-5867
Tobias SpielmannBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicinegrid.424065.1, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3968-4601
Jan StraussCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6208-791X
Tim-Wolf GilbergerCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7965-8272
Anna BachmannCentre for Structural Systems Biology, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8397-7308
Universität Hamburg · DEBernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine · DELeibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the symptomatic human blood phase, malaria parasites replicate within red blood cells. Parasite proliferation relies on the uptake of nutrients, such as amino acids, from the host cell and blood plasma, requiring transport across multiple membranes. Amino acids are delivered to the parasite through the parasite-surrounding vacuolar compartment by specialized nutrient-permeable channels of the erythrocyte membrane and the parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM). However, further transport of amino acids across the parasite plasma membrane (PPM) is currently not well characterized. In this study, we focused on a family of Apicomplexan amino acid transporters (ApiATs) that comprises five members in Plasmodium falciparum. First, we localized four of the P. falciparum ApiATs (

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Amino Acid Transport SystemsCell MembraneErythrocytesFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHost-Parasite InteractionsHumansMalaria, FalciparumPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsAmino Acid Transport SystemsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsmalariaparasitologyPlasmodium falciparum

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PMID34756057
PMCPMC8579892
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