| Literature DB >> 18056275 |
Diana Barthel1, Martin Schlitzer, Gabriele Pradel.
Abstract
Antibacterial agents are used in malaria therapy due to their effect on two prokaryote organelles, the mitochondrion and the apicoplast. We demonstrate here that the ribosome-blocking antibiotics telithromycin and quinupristin-dalfopristin, but not linezolid, inhibit the growth of Plasmodium falciparum. Both drugs induce delayed death in the parasite, suggesting that their effect involves the impairment of apicoplast translation processes.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18056275 PMCID: PMC2224768 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00892-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191