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 …

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as therapeutic targets

NH Kwon, PL Fox, S Kim - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are essential enzymes for protein synthesis with
evolutionarily conserved enzymatic mechanisms. Despite their similarity across organisms …

Diversity-oriented synthesis yields novel multistage antimalarial inhibitors

N Kato, E Comer, T Sakata-Kato, A Sharma, M Sharma… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Antimalarial drugs have thus far been chiefly derived from two sources—natural products
and synthetic drug-like compounds. Here we investigate whether antimalarial agents with …

Progress and challenges in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-based therapeutics

CS Francklyn, P Mullen - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) are universal enzymes that catalyze the attachment of
amino acids to the 3′ ends of their cognate tRNAs. The resulting aminoacylated tRNAs are …

Targeting aminoacyl tRNA synthetases for antimalarial drug development

SC Xie, MDW Griffin, EA Winzeler… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Infections caused by malaria parasites place an enormous burden on the world's poorest
communities. Breakthrough drugs with novel mechanisms of action are urgently needed. As …

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as valuable targets for antimicrobial drug discovery

L Pang, SD Weeks, A Van Aerschot - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) catalyze the esterification of tRNA with a cognate
amino acid and are essential enzymes in all three kingdoms of life. Due to their important …

Cytoplasmic isoleucyl tRNA synthetase as an attractive multistage antimalarial drug target

ES Istvan, F Guerra, M Abraham, KS Huang… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Development of antimalarial compounds into clinical candidates remains costly and arduous
without detailed knowledge of the target. As resistance increases and treatment options at …

Bacterial pathogens: threat or treat (a review on bioactive natural products from bacterial pathogens)

F Maglangit, Y Yu, H Deng - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to the second quarter of 2020 Threat or treat? While pathogenic bacteria pose
significant threats, they also represent a huge reservoir of potential pharmaceuticals to treat …

Using in Vitro Evolution and Whole Genome Analysis To Discover Next Generation Targets for Antimalarial Drug Discovery

MR Luth, P Gupta, S Ottilie… - ACS infectious diseases, 2018 - ACS Publications
Although many new anti-infectives have been discovered and developed solely using
phenotypic cellular screening and assay optimization, most researchers recognize that …

Mitochondrial threonyl-tRNA synthetase TARS2 is required for threonine-sensitive mTORC1 activation

SH Kim, JH Choi, P Wang, CD Go, GG Hesketh… - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) controls cell growth and proliferation
by sensing fluctuations in environmental cues such as nutrients, growth factors, and energy …