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Malaria is one of the major causes of mortality as well as morbidity in many tropical and subtropical countries around the world. Although artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are contributing to substantial decline in the worldwide malaria burden, it is becoming vulnerable by the emergence of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum leading to clinical failure of ACTs in Southeast Asia. Helicases play important role in nucleic acid metabolic processes and have been also identified as therapeutic drug target for different diseases. Previously, it has been reported that P. falciparum contains a group of DEAD-box family of helicases which are homologous to Has1 family of yeast. Here, we present the characterization of a member of Has1 family (PlasmoDB number PF3D7_1419100) named as PfDDX55. The biochemical characterization of PfDDX55C revealed that it contains both DNA- and RNA-dependent ATPase activity. PfDDX55C unwinds partially duplex DNA in 3′ to 5′ direction and utilizes mainly ATP or dATP for its activity. The immunofluorescence assay and q-RT PCR analysis show that PfDDX55 is a nucleocytoplasmic protein expressed in all the intraerythrocytic development of P. falciparum 3D7 strain with maximum expression level in trophozoite stage. The LC-MS/MS experiment results and STRING analysis show that PfDDX55 interacts with AAA-ATPase which has been shown to be involved in ribosomal biogenesis.
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Yasmin, R., Kaur, I. & Tuteja, R. Plasmodium falciparum DDX55 is a nucleocytoplasmic protein and a 3′-5′ direction-specific DNA helicase. Protoplasma 257, 1049–1067 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-020-01495-z
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