Global profiling and inhibition of protein lipidation in vector and host stages of the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei
(2016)
Journal Article
Tate, E., Wright, M., Paape, D., Price, H., & Smith, D. (2016). Global profiling and inhibition of protein lipidation in vector and host stages of the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei. ACS Infectious Diseases, 2(6), 427-441. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00034
The enzyme N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) catalyzes the essential fatty acylation of substrate proteins with myristic acid in eukaryotes and is a validated drug target in the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African trypanosomiasis (... Read More about Global profiling and inhibition of protein lipidation in vector and host stages of the sleeping sickness parasite Trypanosoma brucei.