The past, present and future of anti-malarial medicines

EG Tse, M Korsik, MH Todd - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Great progress has been made in recent years to reduce the high level of suffering caused
by malaria worldwide. Notably, the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria …

Malaria: biology and disease

AF Cowman, J Healer, D Marapana, K Marsh - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Malaria has been a major global health problem of humans through history and is a leading
cause of death and disease across many tropical and subtropical countries. Over the last …

Applications of fluorine-containing amino acids for drug design

H Mei, J Han, KD Klika, K Izawa, T Sato… - European journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluorine-containing amino acids are becoming increasingly prominent in new drugs due to
two general trends in the modern pharmaceutical industry. Firstly, the growing acceptance of …

Malaria medicines: a glass half full?

TNC Wells, RH Van Huijsduijnen… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Despite substantial scientific progress over the past two decades, malaria remains a
worldwide burden that causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. New, affordable …

Drugs in development for malaria

EA Ashley, AP Phyo - Drugs, 2018 - Springer
The last two decades have seen a surge in antimalarial drug development with product
development partnerships taking a leading role. Resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to the …

A G358S mutation in the Plasmodium falciparum Na+ pump PfATP4 confers clinically-relevant resistance to cipargamin

D Qiu, JV Pei, JEO Rosling, V Thathy, D Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Diverse compounds target the Plasmodium falciparum Na+ pump PfATP4, with cipargamin
and (+)-SJ733 the most clinically-advanced. In a recent clinical trial for cipargamin …

[HTML][HTML] The malaria parasite cation ATPase PfATP4 and its role in the mechanism of action of a new arsenal of antimalarial drugs

NJ Spillman, K Kirk - International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug …, 2015 - Elsevier
The intraerythrocytic malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, maintains a low cytosolic
Na+ concentration and the plasma membrane P-type cation translocating ATPase …

The development process for discovery and clinical advancement of modern antimalarials

TD Ashton, SM Devine, JJ Mohrle, B Laleu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Malaria is a devastating disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, resulting in
approximately 435000 deaths in 2018. The impact of malaria is compounded by the …

Spirooxindoles as potential pharmacophores

S S. Panda, R A. Jones, P Bachawala… - Mini reviews in …, 2017 - benthamdirect.com
Objective: The spirooxindole heterocyclic scaffold is found in many natural products and has
been identified as an important bioactive agent. Background: Over the past few decades …

A triazolopyrimidine-based dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor with improved drug-like properties for treatment and prevention of malaria

MA Phillips, KL White, S Kokkonda, X Deng… - ACS infectious …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites continues to hamper efforts to control this
lethal disease. Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase has recently been validated as a new target …