Antimalarial hemozoin inhibitors (β-hematin formation inhibition): latest updates

JN Cruz, SN Mali - Combinatorial Chemistry & High …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Malaria is a preventable and curable disease known to be caused by the parasitic infection
of Plasmodium spp., which is transmitted through the bites of infected female Anopheles …

Hemozoin and antimalarial drug discovery

KY Fong, DW Wright - Future medicinal chemistry, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Recent initiatives to develop more effective and affordable drugs, controlling mosquitoes
and development of a preventative vaccine have been launched with the goal of completely …

Hemozoin (beta-hematin) Formation inhibitors: Promising target for the development of new antimalarials: Current update and future prospect

SN Mali, A Pandey - Combinatorial Chemistry & High …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Malaria is responsible for social and economic burden in most lowincome
malaria-affected countries. Thus, newer antimalarials are needed to tackle morbidities and …

Hemozoin inhibiting 2-phenylbenzimidazoles active against malaria parasites

FP L'abbate, R Müller, R Openshaw… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The 2-phenylbenzimidazole scaffold has recently been discovered to inhibit β-hematin
(synthetic hemozoin) formation by high throughput screening. Here, a library of 325,728 N-4 …

Identification and Mechanistic Evaluation of Hemozoin-Inhibiting Triarylimidazoles Active against Plasmodium falciparum

KJ Wicht, JM Combrinck, PJ Smith… - ACS Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In a previous study, target based screening was carried out for inhibitors of β-hematin
(synthetic hemozoin) formation, and a series of triarylimidazoles were identified as active …

Lipophilic mediated assays for β-hematin inhibitors

MD Carter, VV Phelan, RD Sandlin… - … chemistry & high …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
The growing drug resistance of Plasmodia spp. to current antimalarial agents in the quinine
and artemisinin families further asserts the need for novel drug classes to combat malaria …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of β-hematin inhibitors in a high-throughput screening effort reveals scaffolds with in vitro antimalarial activity

RD Sandlin, KY Fong, KJ Wicht, HM Carrell… - International Journal for …, 2014 - Elsevier
The emergence of drug resistant strains of Plasmodium spp. creates a critical need for the
development of novel antimalarials. Formation of hemozoin, a crystalline heme …

Targeting the hemozoin synthesis pathway for new antimalarial drug discovery: technologies for in vitro β-hematin formation assay

BL Tekwani, LA Walker - Combinatorial chemistry & high …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
Clinical manifestations of malaria primarily result from proliferation of the parasite within the
hosts' erythrocytes. During this process, hemoglobin is utilized as the predominant source of …

Virtual screening as a tool to discover new β-haematin inhibitors with activity against malaria parasites

ACC de Sousa, JM Combrinck, K Maepa, TJ Egan - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Malaria remains a major public health problem. With the loss of antimalarials to resistance,
the malaria burden will likely continue for decades. New antimalarial scaffolds are crucial to …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of β-hematin inhibitors in the MMV Malaria Box

KY Fong, RD Sandlin, DW Wright - International Journal for Parasitology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Malaria Box, assembled by the Medicines for Malaria Venture, is a set of 400
structurally diverse, commercially available compounds with demonstrated activity against …