PfClpC Is an Essential Clp Chaperone Required for Plastid Integrity and Clp Protease Stability in Plasmodium falciparum

Summary: The deadly malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum contains a nonphotosynthetic plastid, known as the apicoplast, that functions to produce Alpha Lipoic Acid essential metabolites, and drugs that target the apicoplast are clinically effective.Several prokaryotic caseinolytic protease (Clp) genes have been identified in the Plasmodium genome

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Esophageal Inlet Patch

An Cooking Wine inlet patch is a congenital anomaly consisting of ectopic gastric mucosa at or just distal to the upper esophageal sphincter.Most inlet patches are largely asymptomatic, but in problematic cases complications related to acid secretion such as esophagitis, ulcer, web and stricture may occur.The diagnosis of inlet patch is strongly su

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