Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 Feb 6;13:1001973. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1001973. eCollection 2023.
is an intracellular, zoonotic, kinetoplastid eukaryote with more than 1.2 million cases all over the world. The leishmanial chromosomes are divided into polymorphic chromosomal ends, conserved central domains, and antigen-encoding genes found in telomere-proximal regions. The genome flexibility of chromosomal ends of the leishmanial parasite is known to cause drug resistance and intracellular survival through the evasion of host defense mechanisms. Therefore, in this review, we discuss the plasticity of genome organization which is the primary cause of drug resistance and parasite survival. Moreover, we have not only elucidated the causes of such genome plasticity which includes aneuploidy, epigenetic factors, copy number variation (CNV), and post-translation modification (PTM) but also highlighted their impact on drug resistance and parasite survival.
利什曼原虫是一种细胞内、人畜共患的动质体原生动物,全世界有超过 120 万例病例。利什曼原虫染色体分为多态性染色体末端、保守的中央结构域和位于端粒近端区域的抗原编码基因。已知利什曼原虫染色体末端的基因组灵活性会导致药物耐药性,并通过逃避宿主防御机制来实现细胞内生存。因此,在这篇综述中,我们讨论了导致药物耐药性和寄生虫生存的基因组组织可塑性的主要原因。此外,我们不仅阐明了导致这种基因组可塑性的原因,包括非整倍体、表观遗传因素、拷贝数变异(CNV)和翻译后修饰(PTM),还强调了它们对药物耐药性和寄生虫生存的影响。
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