Proteases as antimalarial targets: strategies for genetic, chemical, and therapeutic validation

E Deu - The FEBS journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria is a devastating parasitic disease affecting half of the world's population. The rapid
emergence of resistance against new antimalarial drugs, including artemisinin‐based …

[HTML][HTML] The proteasome of malaria parasites: A multi-stage drug target for chemotherapeutic intervention?

MN Aminake, HD Arndt, G Pradel - International Journal for Parasitology …, 2012 - Elsevier
The ubiquitin/proteasome system serves as a regulated protein degradation pathway in
eukaryotes, and is involved in many cellular processes featuring high protein turnover rates …

Protein degradation systems as antimalarial therapeutic targets

CL Ng, DA Fidock, M Bogyo - Trends in parasitology, 2017 - cell.com
Artemisinin (ART)-based combination therapies are the most efficacious treatment of
uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Alarmingly, P. falciparum strains have …

Wherever I may roam: protein and membrane trafficking in P. falciparum-infected red blood cells

M Deponte, HC Hoppe, MCS Lee, AG Maier… - Molecular and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Quite aside from its immense importance as a human pathogen, studies in recent years
have brought to light the fact that the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is an …

The proteasome as a target to combat malaria: hits and misses

KM Krishnan, KC Williamson - Translational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The proteasome plays a vital role throughout the life cycle as Plasmodium parasites quickly
adapt to a new host and undergo a series of morphologic changes during asexual …

A novel live-dead staining methodology to study malaria parasite viability

EM Pasini, D Van den Ierssel, HJ Vial, CHM Kocken - Malaria journal, 2013 - Springer
Background Malaria is a major health and socio-economical problem in tropical and sub-
tropical areas of the world. Several methodologies have been used to assess parasite …

Structural Insights Into Key Plasmodium Proteases as Therapeutic Drug Targets

M Mishra, V Singh, S Singh - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Malaria, caused by protozoan of genus Plasmodium, remains one of the highest mortality
infectious diseases. Malaria parasites have a complex life cycle, easily adapt to their host's …

Ubiquitination of specific mitochondrial matrix proteins

G Lehmann, T Ziv, O Braten, A Admon… - Biochemical and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Several protein quality control systems in bacteria and/or mitochondrial matrix from lower
eukaryotes are absent in higher eukaryotes. These are transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA) …

Disruption of a mitochondrial protease machinery in Plasmodium falciparum is an intrinsic signal for parasite cell death

S Rathore, S Jain, D Sinha, M Gupta, M Asad… - Cell death & …, 2011 - nature.com
The ATP-dependent ClpQY protease system in Plasmodium falciparum is a prokaryotic
machinery in the parasite. In the present study, we have identified the complete ClpQY …

The prokaryotic ClpQ protease plays a key role in growth and development of mitochondria in Plasmodium falciparum

S Jain, S Rathore, M Asad, ME Hossain… - Cellular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The ATP‐dependent ClpQY system is a prokaryotic proteasome‐like multi‐subunit
machinery localized in the mitochondrion of malaria parasite. The ClpQY machinery consists …