The Plasmodium falciparum NCR1 membrane protein is a novel antimalarial target that exports cholesterol to maintain membrane homeostasis
Zhemin Zhang, Meinan Lyu, Han Xu…·Edward W. Yu
This paper presents three structures of PfNCR1, a Plasmodium falciparum membrane protein, and shows it exports cholesterol to maintain membrane homeostasis, with MMV009108 inhibiting this function.