HemInozoin cristals are very compact in human parasites. However in opther haemoparasites as order haemosporidia is observed volutin. Do you think is there any correlation between protein transport and volutin?
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Gladys Thalia Cortés Cantín Hemozoin pigment is the byproduct of hemoglobin digestion; free heme is converted into hemozoin (also chemically Beta-hematin). Hemozoin appearance and amount vary as the malaria parasite matures and develops from trophozoites to schizonts or gametocytes. It also varies from species to species and in response to treatment with drugs such as chloroquine and quinines. Hemozoin is golden brownish or dark brownish in appearance under a light microscope and is almost always associated with a limiting membrane.
Volutin granules, on the other hand, sometimes termed metachromatic granules because of their color reaction with the dyes used in light microscopy, contain polymerized inorganic phosphate, an energy-rich compound that acts as a reserve store of energy and phosphate. They lie freely in the cytoplasm and are not associated with the membrane.
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