Polar Crystal Habit and 3D Electron Diffraction Reveal the Malaria Pigment Hemozoin as a Selective Mixture of Centrosymmetric and Chiral Stereoisomers
P. B. Klar, D. Waterman, T. Gruene, D. Mullick, Y. Song, J. B. Gilchrist, C. D. Owen, W. Wen, I. Biran, L. Houben, N. Regev-Rudzki, R. Dzikowski, L. Palatinus, P. Zhang, L. Leiserowitz, M. Elbaum
The paper determines the structure of hemozoin, revealing it as a mixture of centrosymmetric and chiral stereoisomers using electron diffraction and modeling.
bioRxiv · Sep 15, 2022Microbiology