Coupling chemical mutagenesis to next generation sequencing for the identification of drug resistance mutations in Leishmania

oleh: Arijit Bhattacharya, Philippe Leprohon, Sophia Bigot, Prasad Kottayil Padmanabhan, Angana Mukherjee, Gaétan Roy, Hélène Gingras, Anais Mestdagh, Barbara Papadopoulou, Marc Ouellette

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-12-01

Deskripsi

Here, Bhattacharya et al. chemically mutagenize Leishmania and identify genes associated with resistance to miltefosine and paromomycin by next generation sequencing. The study shows that a protein kinase (CDPK1) can mediate resistance to paromomycin by affecting translation.