Transcriptional changes in Plasmodium falciparum upon conditional knock down of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins RSM22 and L23.
The mitochondrion of malaria parasites is an attractive antimalarial drug target, which require mitoribosomes to translate genes encoded in the mitochondrial (mt) DNA.Plasmodium mitoribosomes are composed of highly fragmented ribosomal RNA (rRNA) Top Console Cap encoded in the mtDNA.All mitoribosomal proteins (MRPs) and other assembly factors are e