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MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00047-16
Keywords
Toxoplasma; Plasmodium; malaria; trypanosomes; Leishmania; epigenetics
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- National Institutes of Health [AI116496, AI077502]
- American Heart Association [14POST18890053]
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Parasitic infections remain one of the most pressing global health concerns of our day, affecting billions of people and producing unsustainable economic burdens. The rise of drug-resistant parasites has created an urgent need to study their biology in hopes of uncovering new potential drug targets. It has been established that disrupting gene expression by interfering with lysine acetylation is detrimental to survival of apicomplexan (Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp.) and kinetoplastid (Leishmania spp. and Trypanosoma spp.) parasites. As readers of lysine acetylation, bromodomain proteins have emerged as key gene expression regulators and a promising new class of drug target. Here we review recent studies that demonstrate the essential roles played by bromodomain-containing proteins in parasite viability, invasion, and stage switching and present work showing the efficacy of bromodomain inhibitors as novel antiparasitic agents. In addition, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of bromodomain proteins in representative pathogens, some of which possess unique features that may be specific to parasite processes and useful in future drug development.
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