The ABCs of multidrug resistance in malaria

JB Koenderink, RA Kavishe, SR Rijpma… - Trends in …, 2010 - cell.com
Expanding drug resistance could become a major problem in malaria treatment, as only a
limited number of effective antimalarials are available. Drug resistance has been associated …

Plasmodium falciparum R2TP complex: driver of parasite Hsp90 function

TV Seraphim, G Chakafana, A Shonhai, WA Houry - Biophysical Reviews, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is essential for the development of the main malaria
agent, Plasmodium falciparum. Inhibitors that target Hsp90 function are known to not only kill …

Evidence of the Presence of a Functional Dot/Icm Type IV-B Secretion System in the Fish Bacterial Pathogen Piscirickettsia salmonis

FA Gomez, JA Tobar, V Henríquez, M Sola… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish bacterial pathogen that has severely challenged the
sustainability of the Chilean salmon industry since its appearance in 1989. As this Gram …

The Clp chaperones and proteases of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

M El Bakkouri, A Pow, A Mulichak, KLY Cheung… - Journal of molecular …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Clp chaperones and proteases play an important role in protein homeostasis in the cell.
They are highly conserved across prokaryotes and found also in the mitochondria of …

Localization of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transport proteins PfMRP1, PfMRP2, and PfMDR5 at the Plasmodium falciparum plasma membrane

RA Kavishe, JMW van den Heuvel… - Malaria journal, 2009 - Springer
Background The spread of drug resistance has been a major obstacle to the control of
malaria. The mechanisms underlying drug resistance in malaria seem to be complex and …

Epigenetic landscapes underlining global patterns of gene expression in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

AP Gupta, Z Bozdech - International journal for parasitology, 2017 - Elsevier
The dynamic chromatin landscape displaying combinatorial complexity of the epigenome
impacts gene expression that underlies many events of differentiation and cell cycle …

A putative ATP/GTP binding protein affects Leishmania mexicana growth in insect vectors and vertebrate hosts

A Ishemgulova, N Kraeva, J Hlaváčová… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Leishmania virulence factors responsible for the complicated epidemiology of
the various leishmaniases remain mainly unidentified. This study is a characterization of a …

The Gene vepN Regulated by Global Regulatory Factor veA That Affects Aflatoxin Production, Morphological Development and Pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus

J Xu, M Jiang, P Wang, Q Kong - Toxins, 2024 - mdpi.com
Velvet (VeA), a light-regulated protein that shuttles between the cytoplasm and the nucleus,
serves as a key global regulator of secondary metabolism in various Aspergillus species …

The malarial CDK Pfmrk and its effector PfMAT1 phosphorylate DNA replication proteins and co-localize in the nucleus

D Jirage, Y Chen, D Caridha, MT O'Neil… - Molecular and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) have an established role in metazoans and yeast in DNA
replication, transcription and cell cycle regulation. Several CDKs and their effectors have …

Targeting proteases and proteolytic processing of unusual N-terminal extensions of Plasmodium proteins: parasite peculiarity

A Tehlan, A Saha, SK Dhar - Frontiers in Drug Discovery, 2023 - frontiersin.org
More than sesquicentennial years of malarial research, however the unique malarial
parasite, Plasmodium still bewilders us with its atypical characteristic features. Elimination …