Repurposing methuosis-inducing anticancer drugs for anthelmintic therapy.

Autor: Satish Kumar Rajasekharan, Vinothkannan Ravichandran, Bharath Reddy Boya, Anirudh Jayachandran, Jintae Lee
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: PLoS Pathogens, Vol 20, Iss 9, p e1012475 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1553-7366
1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012475
Popis: Drug-resistant parasitic nematodes pose a grave threat to plants, animals, and humans. An innovative paradigm for treating parasitic nematodes is emphasized in this opinion. This approach relies on repurposing methuosis (a death characterized by accumulation of large vacuoles) inducing anticancer drugs as anthelmintics. We review drugs/chemicals that have shown to kill nematodes or cancerous cells by inducing multiple vacuoles that eventually coalesce and rupture. This perspective additionally offers a succinct summary on Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) of methuosis-inducing small molecules. This strategy holds promise for the development of broad-spectrum anthelmintics, shedding light on shared molecular mechanisms between cancer and nematodes in response to these inducers, thereby potentially transforming both therapeutic domains.
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