Malaria remains a major health problem especially in trop-ical and subtropical regions of the world, and therefore developing new antimalarial drugs constitutes an urgent challenge. Lipid metabolism has been attracting a lot of attention as an application for malarial chemotherapeutic purposes in recent years. However, little is known about glycosphingolipid biosynthesis inPlasmodium falciparum. In this report we describe for the first time the presence of an active glucosylceramide synthase in the intraerythrocytic stages of the parasite
