Marco Biddau, Anne Bouchut, Jack Major, Tracy Saveria, Julie Tottey, Ojore Oka, Marcel van-Lith, Katherine Elizabeth Jennings, Jana Ovciarikova, Amy DeRocher, Boris Striepen, Ross Frederick Waller, Marilyn Parsons, Lilach Sheiner
Apicomplexan parasites are global killers, being the causative agents of diseases like toxoplasmosis and malaria. These parasites are known to be hypersensitive to redox imbalance, yet little is understood about the cellular roles of their various redox regulators. The apicoplast, an essential plastid organelle, is a verified apicomplexan drug target. Nuclear-encoded apicoplast proteins traffic through the ER and multiple apicoplast sub-compartments to their place of function. We propose that thioredoxins contribute to the control of protein trafficking and of protein function within these apicoplast compartments...
February 2018: PLoS Pathogens