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Activity-Based Protein Profiling of Human and Plasmodium Serine Hydrolases and Interrogation of Potential Antimalarial Targets

ABSTRACT: Malaria remains a global health issue requiring the identification of novel therapeutic targets to combat drug resistance. Metabolic serine hydrolases are druggable enzymes playing essential roles in lipid metabolism. However, very few have been investigated in malaria-causing parasites. Here, we used fluorophosphonate broad-spectrum activity-based probes and quantitative chemical proteomics to annotate and profile the activity of more than half of predicted serine hydrolases in P. falciparum across the erythrocytic cycle. Using conditional genetics, we show that the activities of four serine hydrolases, previously annotated as essential (or important) in genetic screens, are actually dispensable for parasite replication. Importantly, we also identified eight human serine hydrolases that are specifically activated at different developmental stages. Chemical inhibition of two of them blocks parasite replication. This strongly suggests that parasites co-opt the activity of host enzymes and opens a new drug development strategy against which the parasite is less likely to develop resistance.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human) Plasmodium Falciparum (isolate 3d7)

TISSUE(S): Erythrocyte, Blood

DISEASE(S): Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria

SUBMITTER: Dara Davison

LAB HEAD: Dr Dara Davison

PROVIDER: PXD035891 | Pride | 2022-10-14

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Activity-based protein profiling of human and plasmodium serine hydrolases and interrogation of potential antimalarial targets.

Davison Dara D Howell Steven S Snijders Ambrosius P AP Deu Edgar E

iScience 20220824 9

Malaria remains a global health issue requiring the identification of novel therapeutic targets to combat drug resistance. Metabolic serine hydrolases are druggable enzymes playing essential roles in lipid metabolism. However, very few have been investigated in malaria-causing parasites. Here, we used fluorophosphonate broad-spectrum activity-based probes and quantitative chemical proteomics to annotate and profile the activity of more than half of predicted serine hydrolases in P. fal ...[more]

PMID: 36105595

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Activity-Based Protein Profiling of Human and Plasmodium Serine Hydrolases and Interrogation of Potential Antimalarial Targets

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Activity-based protein profiling of human and <i>plasmodium</i> serine hydrolases and interrogation of potential antimalarial targets.

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