Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Biochemistry
Biochemical and structural characterization of malaria parasite proteins for the development of anti-malarial therapeutics - Postgraduate Student Projects
Dissertations/Theses:
Niemand J: Biochemical characterisation of putrescine and spermidine uptake as a potential therapeutic target against the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw, Prof K Kirk)
Smit S: Functional consequences of the inhibition of Malaria S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase as a key regulator of polyamine and methionine metabolism (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw)
Williams M: Biochemical and structural characterization of novel drug targets regulating polyamine biosynthesis in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw, Prof L Persson)
Goolab S: Optimization of the heterologous expression of folate metabolic enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum (Prof AI Louw, Prof L Birkholtz)
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