Dissecting the interplay of metabolism and lysine acetylation in Plasmodium. This project aims to improve our limited understanding of a key mechanism called lysine acetylation in Plasmodium, which ar

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Dissecting the interplay of metabolism and lysine acetylation in Plasmodium. This project aims to improve our limited understanding of a key mechanism called lysine acetylation in Plasmodium, which are parasites that infect terrestrial vertebrates causing significant ecological, economic and health impacts. This project will investigate how Plasmodium lysine acetylation is linked to metabolic pathways and discover proteins that are critical to this process. New knowledge generated will improve understanding of Plasmodium biology and in the long term may lead to new ways to monitor, prevent or treat infections with these parasites. This knowledge will benefit researchers globally via access to high quality open science data and benefit Australia by building capability in metabolomics and proteomics core technologies.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3102 - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Lead: Prof Katherine Andrews