Review Article

Advances in Development of New Treatment for Leishmaniasis

Table 3

High-throughput strategies to identify targets in several diseases of different causes.

Disease/pathogenUse of high throughputMain result

Leishmania infantum chagasi Mechanisms involved in parasite resistance to treatmentIdentification of 32 differentially expressed proteins in miltefosine sensitive and resistant parasites using comparative proteomics [69]

Leishmania infantum Mechanisms involved in parasite resistance to treatmentIdentification of 97 differentially expressed proteins in amphotericin B-sensitive and -resistant parasites using quantitative proteomics [70]

Trypanosoma cruzi Mechanisms involved in parasite resistance to treatmentIdentification of proteins involved in the effect of naphthoimidazoles N1, N2 and N3 on the parasite using proteomics [71]

Trypanosoma cruzi Mechanisms of drug action and resistanceIdentification of proteins that could be related to benznidazole reductive activation and/or resistance mechanisms [72]

Trypanosoma brucei Drug developmentProteomics study showing that 2,4-diaminopyrimidines have a good in vitro and in vivo pharmacological profile against trypanosomatid protozoans [73]

Toxoplasma gondii Mechanisms involved in parasite resistance to treatmentFirst proteomics insights into sulfadiazine resistance in T. gondii resistant strains isolated from clinical cases [74]

Plasmodium falciparum Drug development and mechanisms of drug actionProteomics study showing that indolone-N-oxide causes a profound destabilization of the malaria-infected erythrocytes membrane through a mechanism apparently triggered by the activation of a redox signaling pathway rather than direct oxidative damage [75]

Plasmodium falciparum Mechanisms involved in parasite resistance to treatmentIdentification of a specific response to doxycycline treatment, involving mitochondrion and apicoplast [76]

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Identification of markers of treatment responseIdentification of a nonculture based, five-marker signature predictive of 8-week culture status using proteomics [77]

Neisseria gonorrhoeae Drug resistance and mechanisms of drug actionComparative proteomics study providing knowledge of the mode of action of antibiotic and secondary target proteins implicated in adaptation and compensatory mechanisms [78]

Staphylococcus aureus Drug development and mechanisms of drug actionProteomics study showing that MntABC might be a potential therapeutic target for the development of antibiotics and that in vivo proteomics data will serve as a valuable basis for defining potential antigen combinations for multicomponent vaccines [79]

CancerDrug development and mechanisms of drug actionFirst proteomic analysis regarding Aubipyc cytotoxicity in A2780/S ovarian cancer cell line showing that Aubipyc treatment affected, directly or indirectly, several glycolytic enzymes [80]

CancerDrug development Proteomics study showing that several metabolism-related proteins, molecular chaperons, and proteins involved in signaling are differently expressed after targeted chemotherapeutic treatment (Daunorubicin-GnRH-III Derivative Bioconjugate), leading to the conclusion that the bioconjugate exerts its cytotoxic action by interfering with multiple intracellular processes [81]

CancerDrug development and mechanisms of drug actionProteomics study showing differential protein expression after treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines with Alendronate [82]