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Nature Structural Biology  10, 316 - 318 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nsb0503-316

Prized malaria drug target nailed

Pradipsinh K. Rathod1 & Margaret A. Phillips2

1  Pradipsinh K. Rathod is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

2  Margaret A. Phillips is in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Pradipsinh K. Rathod rathod@chem.washington.edu
The structure of Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase−thymidylate synthase, a target of clinically established antimalarial drugs, reveals the nature of inhibitor binding, drug resistance and autologous gene repression, all of which influence species-specific drug sensitivity.

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