N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness.

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Published in Nature on April 01, 2010

Authors

Julie A Frearson1, Stephen Brand, Stuart P McElroy, Laura A T Cleghorn, Ondrej Smid, Laste Stojanovski, Helen P Price, M Lucia S Guther, Leah S Torrie, David A Robinson, Irene Hallyburton, Chidochangu P Mpamhanga, James A Brannigan, Anthony J Wilkinson, Michael Hodgkinson, Raymond Hui, Wei Qiu, Olawale G Raimi, Daan M F van Aalten, Ruth Brenk, Ian H Gilbert, Kevin D Read, Alan H Fairlamb, Michael A J Ferguson, Deborah F Smith, Paul G Wyatt

Author Affiliations

1: Drug Discovery Unit, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK.

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