2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.10.587216
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Identification of a divalent metal transporter required for cellular iron metabolism in malaria parasites

Kade M. Loveridge,
Paul A. Sigala

Abstract: Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites invade and multiply inside red blood cells (RBCs), the most iron-rich compartment in humans. Like all cells, P. falciparum requires nutritional iron to support essential metabolic pathways, but the critical mechanisms of iron acquisition and trafficking during RBC infection have remained obscure. Parasites internalize and liberate massive amounts of heme during large-scale digestion of RBC hemoglobin within an acidic food vacuole (FV) but lack a heme oxygenase to release… Show more

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