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By contrast, R. radiobacter , which forms a parasitic relationship with plants by producing a crown gall rather than nodules, lacks these genes, and appears to possess only nodL , nodX and nodN , suggesting these three nod genes are sufficient to affect root growth and are involved in a parasitic lifestyle rather than being specific to symbiosis [ 33 ] .
It was suggested [ 3 ] that acquisition of these new functions (either by symbiosis or HGT) permitted previously free-living nematodes to expand their range into a new ecological niche (the plant) as a prelude to speciation into parasitic forms.
Strategy one: Developing a drug that has both a commercial market in the west and an application against a neglected parasitic disease.
As with mammalian PP5, PfPP5 may also play an important role in cell division through its interaction with parasitic CDC proteins.
These core laboratories include computational support for drug discovery and chemical library selection, X-ray crystallography, drug metabolism and toxicology facilities, animal models of parasitic diseases, high-throughput screening, and synthetic chemistry.