Findings can open up new avenues for targeted approaches toward therapeutic strategies against the malaria-causing P. falciparum that are aimed at stopping the parasite's life cycle progression and its sexual differentiation, thus blocking the transmission of the parasite into mosquitoes.
The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020. In young children and pregnant women living in areas where the disease is endemic, a major cause of death isScientists are keen to understand the mechanisms that regulate gene expression through the different stages of's lifecycle because such knowledge can help in the discovery of novel antimalarial therapies.
A team led by Karine Le Roch, a professor of molecular, cell and systems biology at the University of California, Riverside, studied the role lncRNAs play inand found that one lncRNA -- lncRNA-ch14 -- partially regulates sexual differentiation and sex determination in's life cycle progression, including sexual differentiation," Le Roch said."We found evidence that lncRNAs are distributed in distinct cellular compartments in.
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