Data di Pubblicazione:
2008
Citazione:
Targeting the plasmepsin 4 orthologs of Plasmodium sp with "Double Drug" inhibitors / L. Janka, J. Clemente, N. Vaiana, A. Sparatore, S. Romeo, B.M. Dunn. - In: PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS. - ISSN 0929-8665. - 15:9(2008), pp. 868-873.
Abstract:
Plasmepsin 4 (PM4) is a digestive vacuole enzyme found in all Plasmodium species examined to date. While P. falciparum has three additional aspartic proteinases in its digestive vacuole in addition to plasmepsin 4, other Plasmodium species have only PM4 in their digestive vacuole. Therefore, PM4 may be a good target for the development of an antimalarial drug. This study presents data obtained with PM4s from several Plasmodium species. Low nanomolar K(i) values have been observed for all PM4s studied.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
A combination of two molecular entities in one compound that kill a pathogen by two mechanisms; A word derived from plasmodium pepsin; Double drug; Plasmepsin; Proteolytic enzyme from the plasmodium species; Statine
Elenco autori:
L. Janka, J. Clemente, N. Vaiana, A. Sparatore, S. Romeo, B.M. Dunn
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