Sleeping sickness: PEX and drugs.
Finding new ways in the treatment of fatal parasitic diseases like the human sleeping sickness is a major challenge of biomedical research. The growing body of knowledge about the biogenesis of the glycosome, a peroxisome-related organelle of trypanosomes, might allow defining novel targets for drug development.
Institute für Physiologische Chemie, Abt. Systembiochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Germany. wolfgang.schliebs@rub.de
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D011485:Protein Binding; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000188:drug therapy*
D015800:Protozoan Proteins