a cavity surrounding ingested food particles in some protozoans
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food vacuole
Papain-like cysteine proteases of malaria parasites degrade haemoglobin in an acidic food vacuole to provide amino acids for intraerythrocytic parasites.
Rajesh Prasad, Atul, Awakash Soni, Sunil Kumar Puri, Puran Singh Sijwali 2012, 'Expression, characterization, and cellular localization of knowpains, papain-likecysteine proteases of the Plasmodium knowlesi malaria parasite.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3520923?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)