Table 1 Gene sets altered only in pyrazoleamide-treated parasites (We mapped Plasmodium genes, with |FCgene|≥ twofold, onto 509 gene sets in the Malaria Parasite Metabolic Pathway database18).

From: Metabolic adjustments of blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum in response to sublethal pyrazoleamide exposure

Gene set description

Ngenes

% of altered genes

 + FOS

−APIC

−HXAN

 + PYZ

Cell cycle regulation

53

1.89

1.89

1.89

11.3

Phosphatase-related proteins

38

2.63

2.63

2.63

15.8

LysoPC-sensitive proteins

37

2.70

0.00

0.00

13.5

Mitochondrion electron flow

37

0.00

0.00

2.70

10.8

Tubulin and microtubules

30

0.00

3.33

0.00

13.3

Fatty acid elongation

23

4.35

4.35

4.35

17.4

Centriole proteins

21

4.76

0.00

0.00

14.3

Mitochondrial copper transport

21

0.00

0.00

4.76

14.3

  1. APIC apicoplast-disrupted parasites19,  + FOS, fosmidomycin-treated parasites11, -HXAN hypoxanthine-limited parasites12, LysoPC lysophosphatidylcholine,+ PYZ pyrazoleamide-treated parasites.
  2. FCgene denotes fold change in average expression of a gene due to the perturbation relative to its average expression under normal conditions (see “Materials and methods”).