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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

A pyruvate transporter in the apicoplast of apicomplexan parasites.

Pu Chen, Yukun Chen, Ningbo Xia, Bolin Fan, Zhipeng Niu, Zhengming He, Xu Wang, Jing Yuan, Nishith Gupta, Bang Shen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Pu Chen *National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0009-0000-3449-3876
Yukun Chen *National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
Ningbo Xia *National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-6090-7400
Bolin FanNational Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
Zhipeng NiuNational Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
Zhengming HeNational Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.
Xu WangState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signal Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.
Jing YuanState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, Innovation Center for Cell Signal Network, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-8907-9143
Nishith GuptaIntracellular Parasite Education and Research Labs, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 500078, Hyderabad, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1452-5126
Bang ShenNational Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-0103-271X

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/S/19/1/504263DST-SERB (India) CRG/2021/000919Fundamental Research Fundi for Central Universities in China 2662023PY005German Research Foundation GU1100/17HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund SZYJY2022015MOST | National Key Research and Development Program of China (NKPs) 2022YFD1800200MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 31961133032Sino-German Science Center M0074Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust DBT India Alliance (India Alliance) IA/S/19/1/504263
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyruvate lies at a pivotal node of carbon metabolism in eukaryotes. It is involved in diverse metabolic pathways in multiple organelles, and its interorganelle shuttling is crucial for cell fitness. Many apicomplexan parasites harbor a unique organelle called the apicoplast that houses metabolic pathways like fatty acid and isoprenoid precursor biosyntheses, requiring pyruvate as a substrate. However, how pyruvate is supplied in the apicoplast remains enigmatic. Here, deploying the zoonotic parasite

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ApicoplastsPyruvic AcidToxoplasmaAnimalsBiological TransportMembrane Transport ProteinsMetabolic Networks and PathwaysProtozoan ProteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsPyruvic Acidchloroplastfatty acid synthesisisoprenoidsMEP pathwayToxoplasma

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PMID38865262
PMCPMC11194499

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