ATG8 Is Essential Specifically for an Autophagy-Independent Function in Apicoplast Biogenesis in Blood-Stage Malaria Parasites

ATG8 Is Essential Specifically for an Autophagy-Independent Function in Apicoplast Biogenesis in Blood-Stage Malaria Parasites

Plasmodium parasites and related pathogens contain an essential non-photosynthetic plastid organelle, the apicoplast, derived from secondary endosymbiosis. Intriguingly, a highly conserved eukaryotic protein, autophagy-related protein 8 (ATG8), has an autophagy-independent function in the apicoplast...

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Main Authors: Walczak, Marta, Ganesan, Suresh M., Yeh, Ellen, Niles, Jacquin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117702
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-8796

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