A HECT ubiquitin-protein ligase as a novel candidate gene for altered quinine and quinidine responses in Plasmodium falciparum.

The emerging resistance to quinine jeopardizes the efficacy of a drug that has been used in the treatment of malaria for several centuries. To identify factors contributing to differential quinine responses in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, we have conducted comparative quantitati...

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Main Authors: Cecilia P Sanchez, Chia-Hao Liu, Sybille Mayer, Astutiati Nurhasanah, Marek Cyrklaff, Jianbing Mu, Michael T Ferdig, Wilfred D Stein, Michael Lanzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4022464?pdf=render