Structure of Key Player in Malaria Determined




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Summary: January 3 2012 - In this JBC podcast we hear an interview with Joseph Jez from Washington University in Saint Louis who talks about his group's Paper of the Week "Structure and reaction mechanism of phosphoethanolamine methyltransferase from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum an anti-parasitic drug target." The paper and interview discuss the role of lipid biosynthesis in malaria.