La estructura del pigmento para la malaria es la beta-hematina

S Pagola1, P W Stephens, D S Bohle

  • 1Department of Physics & Astronomy, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-3800, USA.

Nature
|April 5, 2000
PubMed
Resumen

Los parásitos de la malaria desintoxican el hemo tóxico mediante la formación de hemozoína insoluble. Este estudio revela la estructura cristalina de la beta-hematina sintética, un análogo de la hemozoína, ofreciendo información sobre los mecanismos de los fármacos antimaláricos.

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