A dual-targeted aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum charges cytosolic and apicoplast tRNA(Cys)

James S Pham; Reiko Sakaguchi; Lee M Yeoh; Nilushi S De Silva; Geoffrey I McFadden; Ya-Ming Hou; Stuart A Ralph

Journal article

A dual-targeted aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase in Plasmodium falciparum charges cytosolic and apicoplast tRNA(Cys)

James S Pham, Reiko Sakaguchi, Lee M Yeoh, Nilushi S De Silva, Geoffrey I McFadden, Ya-Ming Hou, Stuart A Ralph

Biochemical Journal | PORTLAND PRESS LTD | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1042/BJ20131451

University of Melbourne Researchers

Stuart Ralph Author Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Geoffrey McFadden Author BioSciences

Lee Yeoh Author Microbiology and Immunology

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council

Awarded by Australian NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council)

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [grant numbers FT0990350, DP130103236], the Australian NHMRC (National Health and Medical Research Council) [grant numbers 520700, 628704 and 637406 (to S.A.R.)] and an NHMRC program grant (to G.I.M.). J.S.P. and L.M.Y. are supported by Australian Postgraduate Awards. The research stay of J.S.P. with the Hou laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. was supported by a J.D. Smyth Postgraduate Student Travel Award from The Australian Society for Parasitology.