Beyond the MEP Pathway: A novel kinase required for prenol utilization by malaria parasites

• Marcell Crispim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcell Crispim, Ignasi Bofill Verdaguer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Ignasi Bofill Verdaguer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcell Crispim, Ignasi Bofill Verdaguer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Agustín Hernández,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Integrated Unit for Research in Biodiversity (BIOTROP-CCBS), Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

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• Thales Kronenberger,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry and Tuebingen Center for Academic Drug Discovery, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Excellence Cluster "Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections" (CMFI), Tübingen, Germany

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• Àngel Fenollar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Lydia Fumiko Yamaguchi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Institute for Technological Research of São Paulo State, Nutabes, São Paulo, Brazil

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• María Pía Alberione,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Miriam Ramirez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Sandra Souza de Oliveira,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Institute for Technological Research of São Paulo State, Nutabes, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Alejandro Miguel Katzin ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amkatzin@icb.usp.br (AMK); luis.izquierdo@isglobal.org (LI)

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-2162

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• Luis Izquierdo

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amkatzin@icb.usp.br (AMK); luis.izquierdo@isglobal.org (LI)

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3704-9874

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