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 …

Drug discovery for cutaneous leishmaniasis: a review of developments in the past 15 years

HN Corman, CW McNamara, MA Bakowski - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Leishmaniasis is a group of vector-borne, parasitic diseases caused by over 20 species of
the protozoan Leishmania spp. The three major disease classifications, cutaneous, visceral …

Topological network measures for drug repositioning

A Badkas, S De Landtsheer… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Drug repositioning has received increased attention since the past decade as several
blockbuster drugs have come out of repositioning. Computational approaches are …

Promastigote-to-Amastigote Conversion in Leishmania spp.—A Molecular View

J Clos, J Grünebast, M Holm - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
A key factor in the successful infection of a mammalian host by Leishmania parasites is their
conversion from extracellular motile promastigotes into intracellular amastigotes. We discuss …

Distinguishing functions of trypanosomatid protein kinases

M Cayla, YR Nievas, KR Matthews, JC Mottram - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa are divergent from opisthokont models and have evolved
unique mechanisms to regulate their complex life cycles and to adapt to a range of hosts …

Inhibition of HSP90 distinctively modulates the global phosphoproteome of Leishmania mexicana developmental stages

EO Porta, L Gao, PW Denny, PG Steel… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is an evolutionarily conserved chaperone
protein that plays a central role in the folding and maturation of a large array of client …

Advancing Treatment for Leishmaniasis: From Overcoming Challenges to Embracing Therapeutic Innovations

VK Singh, R Tiwari, Rajneesh, A Kumar… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protozoan parasite infections, particularly leishmaniasis, present significant public health
challenges in tropical and subtropical regions, affecting socio-economic status and growth …

Computational chemogenomics drug repositioning strategy enables the discovery of epirubicin as a new repurposed hit for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax

LT Ferreira, J Rodrigues, GC Cassiano… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Widespread resistance against antimalarial drugs thwarts current efforts for controlling the
disease and urges the discovery of new effective treatments. Drug repositioning is …

Pathogenic role of mitogen activated protein kinases in protozoan parasites

P Kaur, N Goyal - Biochimie, 2022 - Elsevier
Protozoan parasites with complex life cycles have high mortality rates affecting billions of
human lives. Available anti-parasitic drugs are inadequate due to variable efficacy, toxicity …

Antileishmanial metallodrugs and the elucidation of new drug targets linked to post-translational modifications machinery: pitfalls and progress

RL Monte, POL Moreira, AM de Sousa… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Despite the increasing number of manuscripts describing potential alternative
antileishmanial compounds, little is advancing on translating these knowledges to new …