Comprehensive analysis of parasite biology : from metabolism to drug discovery

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cerdan, Rachel (Author), Muller, Sylke (Author), Radulescu, Ovidiu (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH , c2016
Series:Drug discovery in infectious diseases volume 7
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Discovery of the mechanism of action of novel compounds that target unicellular eukaryotic parasites
  • 2. Antiparasitics from algae
  • 3. Contribution of natural products to drug discovery in tropical diseases
  • 4. Isoxazolines: a novel chemotype highly effective on ectoparasites
  • 5. Trypanosomal cysteine peptidases: target validation and drug design strategies
  • 6. Potential of pyrimidine metabolism for antitrypanosomal drug discovery
  • 7. Phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis pathways in plasmodium
  • 8. Immunophilins as possible drug targets in apicomplexan parasites
  • 9. Targeting the Atg8 conjugation pathway for novel anti-apicomplexan drug discovery
  • 10. Turnover of glycosomes in trypanosomes : perspectives for drug discovery
  • 11. Glideosome of apicomplexans as a drug target
  • 12. N-myristoyltransferase as a target for drug discovery in malaria
  • 13. Methods to investigate metabolic systems in trypanosoma
  • 14. The role of metabolomics in antiparasitic drug discovery
  • 15. The importance of targeting lipid metabolism in parasites for drug discovery
  • 16. Carbon metabolism of plasmodium falciparum
  • 17. Epigenetic gene regulation: Key to development and survival of malaria parasites
  • 18. Mechanisms regulating transcription in plasmodium falciparum as targets for novel antimalarial drugs
  • 19. Aminoacyl t-RNA synthetases as antimalarial drug targets
  • 20. Mathematical approaches to drug and target discovery. mathematical modeling and omic data integration to understand dynamic adaptation of apicomplexan parasites and identify pharmaceutical targets
  • 21. Understanding protozoan parasite metabolism and identifying drug targets through constraint-based modeling
  • 22. Attacking blood-borne parasites with mathematics