Nifs and Sufs in malaria
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (5), 973-981
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02588.x
Abstract
This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross-talk. After overcoming terminological complications to sort out microbial nifS from sufS genes, we connect a bacterial operon, recently found to be involved in iron metabolism, the formation of [Fe–S] clusters and oxidative stress to a potentially important gene (sufB) carried on the degenerate plastid genome of malaria and related parasites.Keywords
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