Leishmania Protein Kinases: Important Regulators of the Parasite Life Cycle and Molecular Targets for Treating Leishmaniasis

A Efstathiou, D Smirlis - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Leishmania is a protozoan parasite of the trypanosomatid family, causing a wide range of
diseases with different clinical manifestations including cutaneous, mucocutaneous and …

Molecular targets and pathways for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis

V Jain, K Jain - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Visceral leishmaniasis is a complicated infectious disease.•Emerging resistance
is one of the main complications in treatment visceral leishmaniasis.•A comprehensive …

Retracted: Leishmania infection activates host mTOR for its survival by M2 macrophage polarization

A Kumar, S Das, A Mandal, S Verma… - Parasite …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mammalian target of rapamycin (m TOR) is a central regulator of growth and immunity of
host cells. It's involvement in cancer and tuberculosis is well documented but least explored …

Identification of Potential MHC Class-II-Restricted Epitopes Derived from Leishmania donovani Antigens by Reverse Vaccinology and Evaluation of Their CD4+ T …

MR Dikhit, A Kumar, S Das, B Dehury, AK Rout… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is one of the most neglected tropical diseases for which no
vaccine exists. In spite of extensive efforts, no successful vaccine is available against this …

Emerging strategies and challenges of molecular therapeutics in antileishmanial drug development

D Gupta, PK Singh, PK Yadav, T Narender… - International …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular therapy refers to targeted therapies based on molecules which have been
intelligently directed towards specific biomolecular structures and include small molecule …

Analysis by RNA-seq of transcriptomic changes elicited by heat shock in Leishmania major

A Rastrojo, L Corvo, R Lombraña, JC Solana… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Besides their medical relevance, Leishmania is an adequate model for studying post-
transcriptional mechanisms of gene expression. In this microorganism, mRNA degradation …

Leishmania donovani induced Unfolded Protein Response delays host cell apoptosis in PERK dependent manner

K Abhishek, S Das, A Kumar, A Kumar… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress generated unfolded stress response (UPR)
is a basic survival mechanism which protects cell under unfavourable conditions …

In silico analysis of Leishmania proteomes and protein-protein interaction network: Prioritizing therapeutic targets and drugs for repurposing to treat leishmaniasis

J Prava, A Pan - Acta Tropica, 2022 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis is a serious world health problem and its current therapies have several
limitations demanding to develop novel therapeutics for this disease. The present study aims …

[HTML][HTML] Mevalonate kinase of Leishmania donovani protects parasite against oxidative stress by modulating ergosterol biosynthesis

MT Shafi, T Bamra, S Das, A Kumar, K Abhishek… - Microbiological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Leishmaniasis comprises of a wide variety of diseases, caused by protozoan parasite
belonging to the genus Leishmania. Leishmania parasites undergo different types of stress …

Oxidant activated soluble adenylate cyclase of Leishmania donovani regulates the cAMP–PKA signaling axis for its intra‐macrophage survival during infection

M Kumar, S Das, A Sen, K Abhishek… - Journal of Cellular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Adenosine 3', 5'‐cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) is a stress sensor molecule that
transduces the cellular signal when Leishmania donovani moves from insect vector to …