Gibberellin Biosynthetic Inhibitors Make Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum Cells Swell and Rupture to Death

• Tomoko Toyama ,

  * E-mail: toyama-imhp@umin.ac.jp (TT); kztanabe@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp (KT)

  Current address: Department of Dermatology, Course of Integrated Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  Affiliations Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Michiru Tahara,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kisaburo Nagamune,

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kenji Arimitsu,

  Affiliation Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Chemistry, Division of Medicinal Chemical Sciences, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Misasagi-Nakauchicho, Yamashinaku, Kyoto, Japan

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• Yoshio Hamashima,

  Affiliation Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Chemistry, Division of Medicinal Chemical Sciences, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Misasagi-Nakauchicho, Yamashinaku, Kyoto, Japan

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• Nirianne M. Q. Palacpac,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Hiroshi Kawaide,

  Affiliation Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Saiwaicho, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshihiro Horii,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Kazuyuki Tanabe

  * E-mail: toyama-imhp@umin.ac.jp (TT); kztanabe@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp (KT)

  Affiliations Laboratory of Malariology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Molecular Protozoology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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