Review Article

Experimental Chemotherapy for Chagas Disease: A Morphological, Biochemical, and Proteomic Overview of Potential Trypanosoma cruzi Targets of Amidines Derivatives and Naphthoquinones

Table 2

Modulated proteins in naphthoimidazoles-treated epimastigotesa.

Protein descriptionExpression statusTreatment

Trypanothione synthetaseupregulatedN1, N2, N3
Mitochondrial heat shockdownregulatedN1
Heat shock protein 60downregulatedN2
Elogation factor 1- downregulatedN1
Enolase 1upregulatedN3
Glutamamyl carboxypeptidasedownregulatedN1
Heat shock protein 85upregulated/downregulatedN1, N2, N3
Tyrosine aminotransferasedownregulatedN3
Cytochrome C oxidase subunit IVdownregulatedN2
Activated PKC receptordownregulatedN3
Hypothetical proteindownregulatedN2
β-tubulindownregulatedN1, N2
Pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 β subunitdownregulatedN3
Sterol 24-C-methyltransferasesdownregulatedN2, N3
Elongation factor 1-βdownregulatedN2
Proteosome α 7 subunitdownregulatedN1
PeroxiredoxindownregulatedN2
Hypothetical proteindownregulatedN1
IgE-dependent histamine-releasing factordownregulatedN3
Elongation factor 2downregulatedN2
DehydrogenasedownregulatedN3
Cystathionine β-synthase 6downregulatedN2
α-tubulindownregulatedN3

aReference [128].