[HTML][HTML] First fully-automated AI/ML virtual screening cascade implemented at a drug discovery centre in Africa

G Turon, J Hlozek, JG Woodland, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Streamlined data-driven drug discovery remains challenging, especially in resource-limited
settings. We present ZairaChem, an artificial intelligence (AI)-and machine learning (ML) …

Molecular modeling studies on 2, 4-disubstituted imidazopyridines as anti-malarials: Atom-based 3D-QSAR, molecular docking, virtual screening, in-silico ADMET and …

SN Mali, A Pandey - Journal of Computational Biophysics and …, 2021 - World Scientific
Malarial parasites have been reported for moderate-high resistance towards classical
antimalarial agents and henceforth development of newer novel chemical entities targeting …

Recent Developments in Medicinal and In Silico Applications of Imidazopyridine Derivatives: Special Emphasis on Malaria, Trypanosomiasis, and Tuberculosis

SN Mali, A Pandey - Chemistry Africa, 2022 - Springer
People from low-income countries are increasingly affected by neglected communicable
diseases, and the health care system frequently overlooks their needs. Currently, these …

Aza‐Heterocyclic Building Blocks with In‐Ring CF2‐Fragment

SV Ryabukhin, DV Bondarenko… - The Chemical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Modern organic chemistry is a titan supporting and reinforcing pharmaceutical, agricultural,
food and material science products. Over the past decades, the organic compounds market …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the modulatory influence on the antimalarial activity of amodiaquine using scaffold hybridisation with ferrocene integration

M Mbaba, TM Golding, RO Omondi, R Mohunlal… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amodiaquine (AQ) is a potent antimalarial drug used in combination with artesunate as part
of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for malarial treatment. Due to the rising …

The Plasmodium falciparum ABC transporter ABCI3 confers parasite strain-dependent pleiotropic antimalarial drug resistance

JM Murithi, I Deni, CFA Pasaje, J Okombo… - Cell chemical …, 2022 - cell.com
Widespread Plasmodium falciparum resistance to first-line antimalarials underscores the
vital need to develop compounds with novel modes of action and identify new druggable …

Identification of novel pyrrolopyrimidine and pyrrolopyridine derivatives as potent ENPP1 inhibitors

HJ Jeong, HL Lee, SJ Kim, JH Jeong… - Journal of Enzyme …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In an effort to discover novel scaffolds of non-nucleotide-derived Ectonucleotide
pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1 (ENPP1) inhibitors to stimulate the Stimulator of …

Quantification of Plasmodium falciparum HRP-2 as an alternative method to [3H] hypoxanthine incorporation to measure the parasite reduction ratio in vitro

LP de Carvalho, E Niepoth, A Mavraj-Husejni… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the absence of a highly efficacious vaccine, chemotherapy remains the cornerstone to
control malaria morbidity and mortality. The threat of the emergence of parasites resistant to …

Antimalarial Imidazopyridines Incorporating an Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Motif: Medicinal Chemistry and Mechanistic Studies

HD Attram, CM Korkor, D Taylor, M Njoroge… - ACS Infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We previously identified a novel class of antimalarial benzimidazoles incorporating an
intramolecular hydrogen bonding motif. The frontrunner of the series, analogue A, showed …

Mechanistic Insights into Formation of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via Scandium-Catalyzed C–H Alkylation of Imidazoles with 1, 1-Disubstituted Alkenes

J Guo, W Yang, D Zhang, SG Wang… - The Journal of Organic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
This density functional theory (DFT) study reveals a detailed plausible mechanism for the Sc-
catalyzed C–H cycloaddition of imidazoles to 1, 1-disubstituted alkenes to form all-carbon …