PRECURSOR SCAVENGING STRATEGY. “Many protozoan parasites live an intracellular auxotrophic lifestyle, actively acquiring metabolites from their nutrient-rich host in order to survive. For instance, blood-stage Plasmodium parasites have lost the ability to biosynthesize purine rings or amino acids, and therefore scavenge host nucleotides to synthesize DNA and catabolize host hemoglobin to generate amino acids.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022