Figure 4.

Transcriptional analysis of PfRACK1 in comparison with other parasite protein-coding genes throughout the Plasmodium falciparum life cycle.A, RNASeq data from PlasmoDB showing all protein-coding genes (solid violin plot), ribosomal protein (dotted violin plot), and PfRACK1 (blue dot) transcript expression in Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 throughout the parasite life cycle. The x-axis indicates the parasite stage and the y-axis (log₁₀ scale) represents transcript fragments per kilobase of exon model per million reads mapped. B, protein mass spectrometry from PlasmoDB showing all proteins (solid violin plot), ribosomal protein (dotted violin plot), and PfRACK1 (blue dot) protein abundance in P. falciparum 3D7 throughout the parasite life cycle. The x-axis indicates the parasite stage and the y-axis (log₂ scale) represents abundance of protein. PfRACK1, Plasmodium falciparum RACK1; RACK1, receptor for activated C-kinase 1.