Mediator Complex of the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum Associates with Evolutionarily Novel Subunits.

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The genome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has been predicted to encode several Mediator subunits. We provide physical evidence for the presence of a Mediator complex in P. falciparum by using coimmunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry to identify interaction partners of the highly conserved Mediator subunit PfMed31. We identify 11 of 14 predicted Mediator subunits and the products of two uncharacterized genes, PF3D7_0526800 and PF3D7_1363600, which are strongly associated with PfMed31. As expected, several additional interaction partners have known roles in the transcriptional control of gene expression and mRNA processing. Intriguingly, multiple interaction partners are implicated in endoplasmic reticulum function and the ER stress (ERS) response, suggesting crosstalk between the ERS response and the transcriptional machinery. 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