Simon Holzinger
simholzinger.bsky.social
Simon Holzinger
@simholzinger.bsky.social
PostDoc Microbiome | Immunotherapy @ Poeck Lab - University Clinic Regensburg
Bioinformatician @ NGScore - Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy
Former Chromatin Biology @ LängstLab - University of Regensburg
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Matthias Marti Lab @ UZH and Gernot Laengst Lab @ @uniregensburg.bsky.social
Read the full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasmodium blood stage development requires the chromatin remodeller Snf2L - Nature
Plasmodium falciparum Snf2L is an ISWI-related ATPase that actively repositions P. falciparum nucleosomes in vivo.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
5/ This work highlights the potential of chromatin remodeling-targeted therapies for malaria and other parasites and also sheds light on the role of chromatin regulation in Plasmodium biology.
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4/ Given the evolutionary distance between Plasmodium and human chromatin remodelers, she also explored the drugability of PfSNF2L finding a Plasmodium-specific inhibitor that mimics PfSNF2L Knockout!
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3/ She shows that PfSNF2L is required for the correct timing of the entire transcriptional program, making it essential in asexual development and sexual differentiation of the parasite.
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2/ Fantastic work by Maresa characterizing the Plasmodium chromatin remodeler PfSNF2L both in vitro and in vivo and also finding an inhibitor with great potential as a drug!
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