PTS and malaria: With both the bioinformatics and biochemical data providing strong and complementary evidence that a conventional DHNA may be lacking in P. falciparum, we next explored the possibility that the DHNA step could be bypassed in malaria parasites, focusing on a protein putatively identified as a PTPS orthologue, which is encoded at the PFF1360w locus of the genome (http://www.plasmodb.org).