Kumari, Shraddha ; Kumar, Awanish ; Samant, Mukesh ; Sundar, Shyam ; Singh, Neeloo ; Dube, Anuradha (2008) Proteomic approaches for discovery of new targets for vaccine and therapeutics against visceral leishmaniasis Proteomics Clinical Application, 2 (3). pp. 372-386. ISSN 1862-8346
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Abstract
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is the most devastating type caused by Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, and Leishmania chagasi. The therapeutic mainstay is still based on the antiquated pentavalent antimonial against which resistance is now increasing. Unfortunately, due to the digenetic life cycle of parasite, there is significant antigenic diversity. There is an urgent need to develop novel drug/vaccine targets against VL for which the primary goal should be to identify and characterize the structural and functional proteins. Proteomics, being widely employed in the study of Leishmania seems to be a suitable strategy as the availability of annotated sequenced genome of Leishmania major has opened the door for dissection of both protein expression/regulation and function. Advances in clinical proteomic technologies have enable to enhance our mechanistic understanding of virulence/pathogenicity/host-pathogen interactions, drug resistance thereby defining novel therapeutic/vaccine targets. Expression proteomics exploits the differential expression of leishmanial proteins as biomarkers for application towards early diagnosis. Further using immunoproteomics efforts were also focused on evaluating responses to define parasite T-cell epitopes as vaccine/diagnostic targets. This review has highlighted some of the relevant developments in the rapidly emerging field of leishmanial proteomics and focus on its future applications in drug and vaccine discovery against VL.
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Keywords: | Diagnostics; Drug Resistance; Drug Targets; Vaccine; Visceral Leishmaniasis |
ID Code: | 71751 |
Deposited On: | 28 Nov 2011 04:38 |
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