Discovery of enzyme in the sleeping sickness parasite streamlines drug development

Monday, April 18, 2016 - 10:00 in Biology & Nature

The single-celled parasite causing African sleeping sickness has a defense mechanism against potential pharmaceuticals under development against the disease, new research indicates. The deadly parasite has an enzyme that can cleave and hence disarm adenosine analogue pharmaceuticals.

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