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Mitochondrial metabolism of sexual and asexual blood stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Biology, June 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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Title
Mitochondrial metabolism of sexual and asexual blood stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Published in
BMC Biology, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-11-67
Pubmed ID
23763941
Authors

James I MacRae, Matthew WA Dixon, Megan K Dearnley, Hwa H Chua, Jennifer M Chambers, Shannon Kenny, Iveta Bottova, Leann Tilley, Malcolm J McConville

Abstract

The carbon metabolism of the blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum, comprising rapidly dividing asexual stages and non-dividing gametocytes, is thought to be highly streamlined, with glycolysis providing most of the cellular ATP. However, these parasitic stages express all the enzymes needed for a canonical mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, and it was recently proposed that they may catabolize glutamine via an atypical branched TCA cycle. Whether these stages catabolize glucose in the TCA cycle and what is the functional significance of mitochondrial metabolism remains unresolved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 2%
Portugal 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 238 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 31%
Researcher 50 20%
Student > Master 37 15%
Student > Bachelor 20 8%
Student > Postgraduate 17 7%
Other 27 11%
Unknown 23 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 95 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 63 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 6%
Chemistry 13 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 12 5%
Other 19 8%
Unknown 34 14%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 October 2014.
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#1,913,617
of 22,711,645 outputs
Outputs from BMC Biology
#564
of 1,984 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,386
of 196,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Biology
#13
of 35 outputs
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