Make it, take it, or leave it: heme metabolism of parasites

Luděk Kořený; Miroslav Oborník; Julius Lukeš

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003088

Make it, take it, or leave it: heme metabolism of parasites

PLoS Pathog. 2013 Jan;9(1):e1003088. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003088. Epub 2013 Jan 17.

Authors

Luděk Kořený¹, Miroslav Oborník, Julius Lukeš

Affiliation

¹ Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic. lk360@cam.ac.uk

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Energy Metabolism
Heme / metabolism*
Host-Parasite Interactions
Parasites / metabolism*
Parasitic Diseases / metabolism*
Parasitic Diseases / therapy
Plasmodium malariae / metabolism

Substances

Heme

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Algatech Project CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0110 to M.O., a Marie Curie fellowship to L.K. and Grant Agency of the Czech Republic P305/11/2179 and a Praemium Academiae award to J.L., who is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.