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Sugar activation and glycosylation in Plasmodium

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Glycoconjugates are important mediators of host-pathogen
                interactions and are usually very abundant in the surface of
                many protozoan parasites. However, in the particular case of
                Plasmodium species, previous works show that
                glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor modifications, and to an
                unknown extent, a severely truncated N-glycosylation are the
                only glycosylation processes taking place in the parasite.
                Nevertheless, a detailed analysis of the parasite genome and the
                recent identification of the sugar nucleotide precursors
                biosynthesized by Plasmodium falciparum support a picture in
                which several overlooked, albeit not very prominent
                glycosylations may be occurring during the parasite life cycle.
                In this work, the authors review recent developments in the
                characterization of the biosynthesis of glycosylation precursors
                in the parasite, focusing on the outline of the possible fates
                of these precursors.

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Sugar activation and glycosylation in Plasmodium