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Fast acting allosteric phosphofructokinase inhibitors block trypanosome glycolysis and cure acute African trypanosomiasis in mice

The parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of Human African Trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. The parasite enters the blood via the bite of the tsetse fly where it is wholly reliant on glycolysis for the production of ATP. Glycolytic enzymes have been regarded as...

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Autores principales: McNae, Iain W., Kinkead, James, Malik, Divya, Yen, Li-Hsuan, Walker, Martin K., Swain, Chris, Webster, Scott P., Gray, Nick, Fernandes, Peter M., Myburgh, Elmarie, Blackburn, Elizabeth A., Ritchie, Ryan, Austin, Carol, Wear, Martin A., Highton, Adrian J., Keats, Andrew J., Vong, Antonio, Dornan, Jacqueline, Mottram, Jeremy C., Michels, Paul A. M., Pettit, Simon, Walkinshaw, Malcolm D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7887271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33594070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21273-6