Föreläsningar och seminarier Infektions- och immunologiseminarium: "Deciphering modes of action of antimalarial drugs by thermal protein profiling"

2025-09-22 13:00 - 14:00 Add to iCal
Campus Solna Rum D1012 i Biomedicum, Karolinska Institutet Solna

Välkommen till ett seminarium med Zbynek Bozdech, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Titel

"Deciphering Modes of Action of Antimalarial Drugs by Thermal Protein Profiling"

Talare

Zbynek Bozdech, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Urval av publikationer

1. Samuel Pazicky, Seth Tjia, Guilherme B. Farias, Nisha Philip, Radoslaw M. Sobota, Andrew P. Waters, Tim-Wolf Gilberger, Zbynek Bozdech, Thermal profiling maps the dynamic interactome in malaria parasites. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5659511/v1 This is a preprint just accepted by Nature Microbiology for publication.

2. Go, K. D., Yan, X. F., Wirjanata, G., Ero, R., Pazicky, S., Dziekan, J., Tjia, S., Lescar, J., Bozdech, Z. & Gao, Y. G. Antimalarial drug artemisinin stabilizes PfRACK1 binding to the ribosome. Structure 33, 1386-1397 e1385, doi:10.1016/j.str.2025.05.008 (2025).

3. Wirjanata, G., Lin, J., Dziekan, J. M., El Sahili, A., Chung, Z., Tjia, S., Binte Zulkifli, N. E., Boentoro, J., Tham, R., Jia, L. S., Go, K. D., Yu, H., Partridge, A., Olsen, D., Prabhu, N., Sobota, R. M., Nordlund, P., Lescar, J. & Bozdech, Z. Identification of an inhibitory pocket in falcilysin provides a new avenue for malaria drug development. Cell Chem Biol 31, 743-759 e748, doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2024.03.002 (2024).

4. Dziekan, J. M., Wirjanata, G., Dai, L., Go, K. D., Yu, H., Lim, Y. T., Chen, L., Wang, L. C., Puspita, B., Prabhu, N., Sobota, R. M., Nordlund, P. & Bozdech, Z. Cellular thermal shift assay for the identification of drug-target interactions in the Plasmodium falciparum proteome. Nat Protoc 15, 1881-1921, doi:10.1038/s41596-020-0310-z (2020).

5. Dziekan, J. M., Yu, H., Chen, D., Dai, L., Wirjanata, G., Larsson, A., Prabhu, N., Sobota, R. M., Bozdech, Z. & Nordlund, P. Identifying purine nucleoside phosphorylase as the target of quinine using cellular thermal shift assay. Sci Transl Med 11, doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aau3174 (2019).

Värd

Gerald McInerney, Institutionen för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi, Karolinska Institutet

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