Dual-specificity, tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinases (DYRKs) and cdc2-like kinases (CLKs) in human disease, an overview

MF Lindberg, L Meijer - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinases (DYRK1A, 1B, 2-4) and cdc2-
like kinases (CLK1-4) belong to the CMGC group of serine/threonine kinases. These protein …

AGC protein kinases: from structural mechanism of regulation to allosteric drug development for the treatment of human diseases

JM Arencibia, D Pastor-Flores, AF Bauer… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2013 - Elsevier
The group of AGC protein kinases includes more than 60 protein kinases in the human
genome, classified into 14 families: PDK1, AKT/PKB, SGK, PKA, PKG, PKC, PKN/PRK, RSK …

Artemisinin kills malaria parasites by damaging proteins and inhibiting the proteasome

JL Bridgford, SC Xie, SA Cobbold, CFA Pasaje… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Artemisinin and its derivatives (collectively referred to as ARTs) rapidly reduce the parasite
burden in Plasmodium falciparum infections, and antimalarial control is highly dependent on …

Reaction hijacking of tyrosine tRNA synthetase as a new whole-of-life-cycle antimalarial strategy

SC Xie, RD Metcalfe, E Dunn, CJ Morton, SC Huang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Aminoacyl transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetases (aaRSs) are attractive drug targets, and we
present class I and II aaRSs as previously unrecognized targets for adenosine 5 …

Plasmodium ARK2 and EB1 drive unconventional spindle dynamics, during chromosome segregation in sexual transmission stages

M Zeeshan, E Rea, S Abel, K Vukušić, R Markus… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Aurora family of kinases orchestrates chromosome segregation and cytokinesis during
cell division, with precise spatiotemporal regulation of its catalytic activities by distinct protein …

Expansion microscopy of Plasmodium gametocytes reveals the molecular architecture of a bipartite microtubule organisation centre coordinating mitosis with …

R Rashpa, M Brochet - PLoS Pathogens, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Transmission of malaria-causing parasites to mosquitoes relies on the production of
gametocyte stages and their development into gametes. These stages display various …

Phosphoproteomics reveals malaria parasite Protein Kinase G as a signalling hub regulating egress and invasion

MM Alam, L Solyakov, AR Bottrill, C Flueck… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Our understanding of the key phosphorylation-dependent signalling pathways in the human
malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, remains rudimentary. Here we address this issue …

Global Analysis of Protein Expression and Phosphorylation of Three Stages of Plasmodium falciparum Intraerythrocytic Development

BN Pease, EL Huttlin, MP Jedrychowski… - Journal of proteome …, 2013 - ACS Publications
During asexual intraerythrocytic development, Plasmodium falciparum diverges from the
paradigm of the eukaryotic cell cycles by undergoing multiple rounds of DNA replication and …

Inhibiting the Plasmodium eIF2α kinase PK4 prevents artemisinin-induced latency

M Zhang, J Gallego-Delgado, C Fernandez-Arias… - Cell host & …, 2017 - cell.com
Artemisinin and its derivatives (ARTs) are frontline antimalarial drugs. However, ART
monotherapy is associated with a high frequency of recrudescent infection, resulting in …

Biogenesis and secretion of micronemes in Toxoplasma gondii

DJ Dubois, D Soldati‐Favre - Cellular Microbiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One of the hallmarks of the parasitic phylum of Apicomplexa is the presence of highly
specialised, apical secretory organelles, called the micronemes and rhoptries that play …