Naegleria fowleri: Protein structures to facilitate drug discovery for the deadly, pathogenic free-living amoeba.

Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic, thermophilic, free-living amoeba which causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). Penetrating the olfactory mucosa, the brain-eating amoeba travels along the olfactory nerves, burrowing through the cribriform plate to its destination: the brain's frontal...

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Main Authors: Logan Tillery, Kayleigh Barrett, Jenna Goldstein, Jared W Lassner, Bram Osterhout, Nathan L Tran, Lily Xu, Ryan M Young, Justin Craig, Ian Chun, David M Dranow, Jan Abendroth, Silvia L Delker, Douglas R Davies, Stephen J Mayclin, Brandy Calhoun, Madison J Bolejack, Bart Staker, Sandhya Subramanian, Isabelle Phan, Donald D Lorimer, Peter J Myler, Thomas E Edwards, Dennis E Kyle, Christopher A Rice, James C Morris, James W Leahy, Roman Manetsch, Lynn K Barrett, Craig L Smith, Wesley C Van Voorhis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241738