Little work has been performed on FAE in malaria parasites, which harbor a pathway in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that comprises three elongases (ELO-A, ELO-B and ELO-C), a ketoacyl-CoA reductase (KCR), a hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydratase (DEH), and an enoyl-CoA reductase (ECR), required for the final elongation step (Ramakrishnan et al., 2012, Ramakrishnan et al., 2013; Table S4). Here, ELOC is linked to malaria.