The birth of artemisinin

N Ma, Z Zhang, F Liao, T Jiang, Y Tu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
As the first-line antimalarial drugs, artemisinins gained wide acceptance after the
emergence of resistance to chloroquine in the 1950s. Artemisinin-based drugs have saved …

What has traditional Chinese medicine delivered for modern medicine?

J Wang, YK Wong, F Liao - Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
The field of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a vast and largely untapped
resource for modern medicine. Exemplified by the success of the antimalarial artemisinin …

Artemisinin as an anticancer drug: Recent advances in target profiling and mechanisms of action

YK Wong, C Xu, KA Kalesh, Y He, Q Lin… - Medicinal research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Artemisinin and its derivatives (collectively termed as artemisinins) are among the most
important and effective antimalarial drugs, with proven safety and efficacy in clinical use …

[HTML][HTML] Artemisinin, the magic drug discovered from traditional Chinese medicine

J Wang, C Xu, YK Wong, Y Li, F Liao, T Jiang, Y Tu - Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Artemisinin and its derivatives represent the most important and influential class of drugs in
the fight against malaria. Since the discovery of artemisinin in the early 1970s, the global …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum resistance to ACTs: Emergence, mechanisms, and outlook

FA Siddiqui, X Liang, L Cui - … Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergence and spread of resistance in Plasmodium falciparum to the frontline treatment
artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the epicenter of multidrug resistance of …

Advances in the research on the targets of anti-malaria actions of artemisinin

J Yang, Y He, Y Li, X Zhang, YK Wong, S Shen… - Pharmacology & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Malaria has been a global epidemic health threat since ancient times. It still claims roughly
half a million lives every year in this century. Artemisinin and its derivatives, are frontline …

Artemisinin inspired synthetic endoperoxide drug candidates: Design, synthesis, and mechanism of action studies

CM Woodley, PSM Amado… - Medicinal Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) have been used as the first‐line treatments
against Plasmodium falciparum malaria for decades. Recent advances in chemical …

Reactive-site-centric chemoproteomics identifies a distinct class of deubiquitinase enzymes

DS Hewings, J Heideker, TP Ma, AP AhYoung… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Activity-based probes (ABPs) are widely used to monitor the activity of enzyme families in
biological systems. Inferring enzyme activity from probe reactivity requires that the probe …

Artemisinin inhibits NRas palmitoylation by targeting the protein acyltransferase ZDHHC6

N Qiu, D Abegg, M Guidi, K Gilmore, PH Seeberger… - Cell Chemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Protein S-palmitoylation is a post-translational modification that plays a crucial role in cancer
cells by regulating the function and localization of oncoproteins and tumor suppressor …

Chemical Proteomics Strategies for Analyzing Protein Lipidation Reveal the Bacterial O-Mycoloylome

N Banahene, TM Peters-Clarke, KJ Biegas… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation dynamically controls protein localization and function within cellular
membranes. A unique form of protein O-fatty acylation in Corynebacterium, termed protein O …