MOESM4 of Changes in lipid composition during sexual development of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Additional file 4. Content (nmol / 109 cells, Mean Âą SD) and percentage (in parentheses) of the lipid classes and major lipid species of the blood-stage P. falciparum infected red blood cells. Parasites were enriched with higher than 95% parasitemia by magnet purification and global lipidomics of whole-cell extracts were analysed by mass spectrometry. uRBC, uninfected red blood cell; I-V, gametocytes stage I to V; n.d., not detected.