[DNA-, RNA-, lipidsynthesis and the specific activity of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase in the different morphologic stages of Plasmodium vinckei].

DNA-, RNA-, and lipidsynthesis, glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphatase and succinate-dehydrogenase were studied in the different morphologic stages of blood schizogony of Plasmodium vinckei. For the separation of these stages of the maturation cycle a discontinuous Ficoll-density gradient was developed. By this method the morphologic stages were separated and obtained in sufficient amounts. DNA-, RNA- and lipidsynthesis was not continuous in the intraerythrocytic cycle of the parasite. The glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity of the infected erythrocytes decreases whereas that of the glucose-6-phosphatase increases in the maturation cycle of P. vinckei.