Cell BiologybioRxiv
CaaX-like protease of cyanobacterial origin is required for complex plastid biogenesis in malaria parasites
T. R. Meister, Y. Tang, M. J. Pulkoski-Gross, E. Yeh
The paper identifies AMR4, a CaaX-like protease in Plasmodium parasites, which is essential for apicoplast biogenesis but does not function in the expected CaaX post-prenylation pathway.
DOI 10.1128/mbio.01492-20