Our Publication Highlights

• Plasmodium’s bottomless pit: properties and functions of the malaria parasite's digestive vacuole.

  • Matz JM.
  • Trends Parasitol. 2022; S1471-4922(22)00040-X
  • 2022-02-01

• An apicoplast-resident folate transporter is essential for sporogony of malaria parasites.

  • Korbmacher F, Drepper B, Sanderson T, Martin P, Stach T, Maier AG, Matuschewski K, Matz JM.
  • Cell Microbiol. 2021; 23:e13266.
  • 2021-05-01

• A lipocalin mediates unidirectional heme biomineralization in malaria parasites.

  • Matz JM, Drepper B, Blum TB, van Genderen E, Burrell A, Martin P, Stach T, Collinson L, Abrahams JP, Matuschewski K, Blackman MJ
  • PNAS. 2020; 117:16546–56
  • 2020-05-01

• Plasmodium para-aminobenzoate synthesis and salvage resolve avoidance of folate com­peti­tion and adaptation to host diet.

  • Matz JM, Watanabe M, Falade M, Tohge T, Hoefgen R, Matuschewski K.
  • Cell Rep. 2019; 26:356–63.
  • 2019-05-01

• An unusual prohibitin regulates malaria parasite mitochondrial membrane potential.

  • Matz JM, Goosmann C, Matuschewski K, Kooij TWA
  • Cell Rep. 2018; 23:1–12.
  • 2018-05-01