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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2021

EdU Incorporation To Assess Cell Proliferation and Drug Susceptibility in Naegleria fowleri.

Emma V Troth, Dennis E Kyle

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Emma V TrothDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Dennis E KyleDepartment of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
University of Georgia · US

Funding

Training in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases - SupplementT32AI060546 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) · PI Silvia N Moreno, Vasant Muralidharan · 2004 to 2026
$5.1M
Purchase of an imaging flow cytometer 2016S10OD021719 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI TARLETON, RICK L · 2017 to 2017
$454k
Repurposing drugs for treatment of primary amoebic meningoencephalitisR03AI149097 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI KYLE, DENNIS E · 2020 to 2021
$151k
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) R03AI149097HHS | NIH | NIH Office of the Director (OD) S10OD021719NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI149097NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI060546NIH HHS S10 OD021719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naegleria fowleri is a pathogenic free-living amoeba that is commonly found in warm freshwater and can cause a rapidly fulminant disease known as primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). New drugs are urgently needed to treat PAM, as the fatality rate is >97%. Until recently, few advances have been made in the discovery of new drugs for N. fowleri, and one drawback is the lack of validated tools and methods to enhance drug discovery and diagnostics research. In this study, we aimed to validate alternative methods to assess cell proliferation that are commonly used for other cell types and develop a novel drug screening assay to evaluate drug efficacy on N. fowleri replication. EdU (5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine) is a pyrimidine analog of thymidine that can be used as a quantitative endpoint for cell proliferation. EdU incorporation is detected via a copper catalyzed click reaction with an Alexa Fluor-linked azide. EdU incorporation in replicating N. fowleri was validated using fluorescence microscopy, and quantitative methods for assessing EdU incorporation were developed by using an imaging flow cytometer. Currently used PAM therapeutics inhibited N. fowleri replication and EdU incorporation

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Central Nervous System Protozoal InfectionsNaegleria fowleriPharmaceutical PreparationsCell ProliferationDrug DiscoveryHumansPharmaceutical Preparations5-ethynyl-2′-deoxyuridinedrug discoveryNaegleria fowleri

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PMID33846135
PMCPMC8373226
OpenAlexW3154433110

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