Summary of project PR001335
This data is available at the NIH Common Fund's National Metabolomics Data Repository (NMDR) website, the Metabolomics Workbench, https://www.metabolomicsworkbench.org, where it has been assigned Project ID PR001335. The data can be accessed directly via it's Project DOI: 10.21228/M85416 This work is supported by NIH grant, U2C- DK119886.
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| Project ID: | PR001335 |
| Project DOI: | doi: 10.21228/M85416 |
| Project Title: | Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway |
| Project Summary: | Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria, continues to remain a global health threat since these parasites are now resistant to all anti-malaria drugs used throughout the world. Accordingly, drugs with novel modes of action are desperately required to combat malaria. P. falciparum parasites infect human red blood cells where they digest the hosts main protein constituent, hemoglobin. Leucine aminopeptidase PfA-M17 is one of several aminopeptidases that have been implicated in the last step of this digestive pathway. Here we utilize both reverse genetics and a compound specifically designed to inhibit the activity of PfA-M17 to show that PfA-M17 is essential for P. falciparum survival as it provides parasites with free amino acids for growth, many of which are highly likely to originate from hemoglobin. We further show that our inhibitor is on-target for PfA-M17 and has the ability to kill parasites at nanomolar concentrations. Thus, in contrast to other hemoglobin-degrading proteases that have overlapping redundant functions, we validate PfA-M17 as a potential novel drug target. |
| Institute: | Monash University |
| Last Name: | Siddiqui |
| First Name: | Ghizal |
| Address: | 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, 3052, Australia |
| Email: | ghizal.siddiqui@monash.edu |
| Phone: | 99039282 |
Summary of all studies in project PR001335
| Study ID | Study Title | Species | Institute | Analysis(* : Contains Untargted data) | Release Date | Version | Samples | Download(* : Contains raw data) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST002106 | Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway (Part 1) | Plasmodium falciparum | Monash University | MS | 2022-04-04 | 1 | 15 | Uploaded data (1.1G)* |
| ST002107 | Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway (Part 2) | Plasmodium falciparum | Monash University | MS | 2022-04-04 | 1 | 12 | Uploaded data (1.2G)* |
| ST002108 | Genetic and chemical validation of Plasmodium falciparum aminopeptidase PfA-M17 as a drug target in the hemoglobin digestion pathway (Part 3) | Plasmodium falciparum | Monash University | MS | 2022-04-04 | 1 | 13 | Uploaded data (1.5G)* |
