Heterologous expression of plasmodial proteins for structural studies and functional annotation

Full text for this resource is not available from the Research Repository.

Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie, Blatch, Gregory ORCID: 0000-0003-0778-8577, Coetzer, Theresa, Hoppe, Heinrich, Human, Esmaré, Morris, Elizabeth, Ngcete, Zoleka, Oldfield, Lyndon, Roth, Robyn, Shonhai, Addmore, Stephens, Linda L and Louw, Abraham (2008) Heterologous expression of plasmodial proteins for structural studies and functional annotation. Malaria Journal, 7 (1). ISSN 1475-2875

Abstract

Malaria remains the world's most devastating tropical infectious disease with as many as 40% of the world population living in risk areas. The widespread resistance of Plasmodium parasites to the cost-effective chloroquine and antifolates has forced the introduction of more costly drug combinations, such as Coartem®. In the absence of a vaccine in the foreseeable future, one strategy to address the growing malaria problem is to identify and characterize new and durable antimalarial drug targets, the majority of which are parasite proteins. Biochemical and structure-activity analysis of these proteins is ultimately essential in the characterization of such targets but requires large amounts of functional protein. Even though heterologous protein production has now become a relatively routine endeavour for most proteins of diverse origins, the functional expression of soluble plasmodial proteins is highly problematic and slows the progress of antimalarial drug target discovery. Here the status quo of heterologous production of plasmodial proteins is presented, constraints are highlighted and alternative strategies and hosts for functional expression and annotation of plasmodial proteins are reviewed.

Dimensions Badge

Altmetric Badge

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/8145
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-7-197
Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-197
Subjects Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Historical > FOR Classification > 1108 Medical Microbiology
Keywords ResPubID22199. malaria, plasmodium parasites, proteins
Citations in Scopus 59 - View on Scopus
Download/View statistics View download statistics for this item

Search Google Scholar

Repository staff login