Beyond the MEP Pathway: A novel kinase required for prenol utilization by malaria parasites.

"the results of the simulations in the form of trajectory and interaction data are available on the zenodo repository (code: 10 5281/zenodo 7540985)."

"The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

"MC and IBV are fellows from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); MC FAPESP process numbers: 2020/14897-6 and 2018/02924-9; IBV FAPESP process number: 2019/13419-6. This work was supported by FAPESP process number: 2017/22452-1 and 2014/10443-0, awarded to AMK and AHL respectively, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Institut de Salut Global (ISGlobal) is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019-2023 Program (grant number CEX2018-000806-S), and the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program. This work is part of the ISGlobal Program on the Molecular Mechanisms of Malaria, partially supported by the Fundación Ramón Areces. LI receives support by PID2019-110810RB-I00 and PID2022-137031OB-I00 grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science & Innovation. MPA is supported by a FI Fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya supported by Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya and Fons Social Europeu (2021 FI_B 00470) and AF is supported by a Becas de Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU Fellowship) from the Spanish Ministry of Universities (FPU20-04484). TK is funded by the Exzellenzcluster „Kontrolle von Mikroorganismen zur Bekämpfung von Infektionen“ (CIMF) and TüCAD2. CIMF and TüCAD2 are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."