Malarial haemozoin/β-haematin supports haem polymerization in the absence of protein

MALARIAL parasites growing inside erythrocytes digest up to 80% of the host cell's haemoglobin within a lysosomal organelle, the digestive vacuole 1,2 . They sequester the potentially toxic haem (Fe (II) protohaematoporphyrin) that is released during this process into an insoluble pigment calle...

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