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 …

Toxin-antitoxin systems and their medical applications: current status and future perspective

A Srivastava, S Pati, H Kaushik, S Singh… - Applied Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Almost all bacteria synthesize two types of toxins—one for its survival by regulating different
cellular processes and another as a strategy to interact with host cells for pathogenesis …

Prefoldins are novel regulators of the unfolded protein response in artemisinin resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria

R Shoaib, N Parveen, V Kumar, A Behl, S Garg… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - jbc.org
Emerging Artemisinin (ART) resistance in Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) poses challenges for
the discovery of novel drugs to tackle ART-resistant parasites. Concentrated efforts toward …

Candidates for Balancing Selection in Leishmania donovani Complex Parasites

CA Grace, S Forrester, VC Silva… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The Leishmania donovani species complex is the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis,
which cause 20–40,000 fatalities a year. Here, we conduct a screen for balancing selection …

Identification and characterization of VapBC toxin–antitoxin system in Bosea sp. PAMC 26642 isolated from Arctic lichens

H Jeon, E Choi, J Hwang - RNA, 2021 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are genetic modules composed of a toxin interfering with
cellular processes and its cognate antitoxin, which counteracts the activity of the toxin. TA …

Molecular dynamics simulation of Toxin‐Antitoxin (TA) system in Acinetobacter baumannii to explore the novel mechanism for inhibition of cell wall biosynthesis: Zeta …

A Karthika, B Ramachandran, J Chitra… - Journal of Cellular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of bacteria and archaea contains Toxin‐Antitoxin system (TA) that codes for the
stable Toxin and unstable Antitoxin components forming a complex. The Antitoxin inhibits …

Screening of traditional medicinal plant extracts and compounds identifies a potent anti-leishmanial diarylheptanoid from Siphonochilus aethiopicus

I Ezenyi, E Madan, J Singhal, R Jain… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Available anti-leishmanial drugs are associated with toxic side effects, necessitating the
search for safe and effective alternatives. This study is focused on identifying traditional …

Plasmodium Iron-Sulfur [Fe-S] cluster assembly protein Dre2 as a plausible target of Artemisinin: Mechanistic insights derived in a prokaryotic heterologous system

NK Bub, S Anand, S Garg, V Saxena, DSR Khanna… - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster containing proteins have been assigned roles in various
essential cellular processes, such as regulation of gene expression, electron transfer …

Evaluation of Immunopharmacological Efficacy of Live Leishmania donovani Overexpressing Ld_ζ1domain for Protection Against Experimental Human Visceral …

R Bansal, S Shafi, P Garg, A Srivastava, S Garg… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and immunogenicity of the zeta domain over-expressing
Leishmania donovani (Ld_ζ1domain) as a vaccination candidate against visceral …

Chaperonin activity of Plasmodium prefoldin complex is essential to guard proteotoxic stress response and presents a new target for drug discovery

R Shoaib, V Kumar, S Garg, M Saini, J Kumari… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The intraerythrocytic growth of malaria parasite is challenged by the presence of proteotoxic
stress and intrinsically unstructured proteins in the cytoplasm due to formation of toxic heme …