Antimalarial drug discovery: Progress and approaches

JL Siqueira-Neto, KJ Wicht, K Chibale… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent antimalarial drug discovery has been a race to produce new medicines that
overcome emerging drug resistance, whilst considering safety and improving dosing …

[HTML][HTML] Antimalarial drug discovery—approaches and progress towards new medicines

EL Flannery, AK Chatterjee, EA Winzeler - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Malaria elimination has recently been reinstated as a global health priority but current
therapies seem to be insufficient for the task. Elimination efforts require new drug classes …

Revisiting the role of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase as a therapeutic target for cancer

JT Madak, A Bankhead III, CR Cuthbertson… - Pharmacology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Identified as a hallmark of cancer, metabolic reprogramming allows cancer cells to rapidly
proliferate, resist chemotherapies, invade, metastasize, and survive a nutrient-deprived …

A long-duration dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor (DSM265) for prevention and treatment of malaria

MA Phillips, J Lotharius, K Marsh, J White… - Science translational …, 2015 - science.org
Malaria is one of the most significant causes of childhood mortality, but disease control
efforts are threatened by resistance of the Plasmodium parasite to current therapies …

Opportunities and challenges in antiparasitic drug discovery

R Pink, A Hudson, MA Mouriès, M Bendig - Nature reviews Drug …, 2005 - nature.com
New antiparasitic drugs are urgently needed to treat and control diseases such as malaria,
leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and filariasis, which affect millions of people each year …

Innovative lead discovery strategies for tropical diseases

S Nwaka, A Hudson - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2006 - nature.com
Lead discovery is currently a key bottleneck in the pipeline for much-needed novel drugs for
tropical diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis …

Specific role of mitochondrial electron transport in blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum

HJ Painter, JM Morrisey, MW Mather, AB Vaidya - nature, 2007 - nature.com
The origin of all mitochondria can be traced to the symbiotic arrangement that resulted in the
emergence of eukaryotes in a world that was exclusively populated by prokaryotes,,. This …

Structure-Guided Lead Optimization of Triazolopyrimidine-Ring Substituents Identifies Potent Plasmodium falciparum Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors with …

JM Coteron, M Marco, J Esquivias, X Deng… - Journal of medicinal …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Drug therapy is the mainstay of antimalarial therapy, yet current drugs are threatened by the
development of resistance. In an effort to identify new potential antimalarials, we have …

New medicines to improve control and contribute to the eradication of malaria

TNC Wells, PL Alonso, WE Gutteridge - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2009 - nature.com
Despite being one of the most prevalent tropical diseases, for many years malaria was not a
commercial priority for the pharmaceutical industry. However, in response to the emergence …

On dihydroorotate dehydrogenases and their inhibitors and uses

H Munier-Lehmann, PO Vidalain… - Journal of medicinal …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Proper nucleosides availability is crucial for the proliferation of living entities (eukaryotic
cells, parasites, bacteria, and virus). Accordingly, the uses of inhibitors of the de novo …