The RNA Structurome in the Asexual Blood Stages of Malaria Pathogen Plasmodium falciparum
Diana Renteria Alvarez, Alejandra Ospina, Tiffany Barwell, Bo Zheng, Abhishek Dey, Chong V. Li, Shrabani Basu, Xinghua Mindy Shi, Sabah Kadri, Kausik Chakrabarti
This study measures RNA secondary structures in Plasmodium falciparum during asexual development, finding that ~71% of structured RNAs are protein-coding and that structural content correlates with translation efficiency.
RNA Biology · May 8, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology