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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-21
pubmed:abstractText
The effects of peptide proteinase inhibitors on globin hydrolysis by cultured malaria parasites were studied. All of the four cysteine proteinase inhibitors evaluated blocked globin hydrolysis, as documented by the development of a morphological abnormality in which parasite food vacuoles filled with undegraded globin and by SDS-PAGE showing that the cysteine proteinase inhibitor-treated parasites accumulated large quantities of globin. The aspartic proteinase inhibitor pepstatin did not block globin hydrolysis by cultured parasites. None of seven antimalarial drugs tested elicited the food vacuole abnormality caused by cysteine proteinase inhibitors, indicating that this morphological alteration was not simply a sign of nonspecific parasite toxicity. Our results indicate that a trophozoite cysteine proteinase is required for initial cleavages of globin by intact malaria parasites.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antimalarials, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Chymotrypsin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Coumarins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Dipeptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/E 64, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fluorescent Dyes, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Globins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Leucine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Leupeptins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oligopeptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pepstatins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Streptomyces pepsin inhibitor, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/benzyloxycarbonyl-phenylalanylargini..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/chymostatin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/leupeptin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/pepstatin
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0014-4894
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
80
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
272-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Plasmodium falciparum: effects of proteinase inhibitors on globin hydrolysis by cultured malaria parasites.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, California.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't