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Mapping parasite mitochondria reveals ancient pathways and dozens of potential new drug targets (opens in a new tab)

medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-03

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedA four-year effort led by Vamsi Mootha mapped the mitochondrial proteomes of parasites that cause sleeping sickness, giardiasis, leishmaniasis and babesiosis, spanning five parasites and one plant.View evidenceHide evidence

As statedfive parasites and one plant; nearly a billion people every year

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe studies, published in nine papers, point toward promising new drug candidates and suggest some parasites share ancient mitochondrial machinery that human mitochondria lost long ago.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe consortium found 33 protein families shared across two or more of the parasites that are absent from human mitochondria, which the article presents as promising candidates for a drug that could treat multiple diseases at once.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says Giardia's mitochondria have lost their genome entirely, while Acanthamoeba's mitochondria can run on oxygen and also use hydrogenase to produce hydrogen gas when oxygen is low.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedUsing their data, the team trained an AI model to predict mitoproteomes of nearly 200 eukaryotes and reconstructed the mitochondrion of the last common ancestor of modern eukaryotes as metabolically flexible and capable of functioning with or without oxygen.View evidenceHide evidence

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