[HTML][HTML] The molecular basis of antimalarial drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax

LE Buyon, B Elsworth, MT Duraisingh - International Journal for …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plasmodium vivax is the most geographically widespread cause of human malaria and is
responsible for the majority of cases outside of the African continent. While great progress …

Global scenario of Plasmodium vivax occurrence and resistance pattern

D Kaur, S Sinha, R Sehgal - Journal of Basic Microbiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax is comparatively less virulent than Plasmodium
falciparum, which can also lead to severe disease and death. It shows a wide geographical …

Mechanistic basis for multidrug resistance and collateral drug sensitivity conferred to the malaria parasite by polymorphisms in PfMDR1 and PfCRT

SH Shafik, SN Richards, B Corry, RE Martin - PLoS biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Polymorphisms in the Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance protein 1 (pfmdr1) gene
and the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter (pfcrt) gene alter the …

Expansion of a specific Plasmodium falciparum PfMDR1 haplotype in Southeast Asia with increased substrate transport

C Calçada, M Silva, V Baptista, V Thathy… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have been vital in reducing malaria
mortality rates since the 2000s. Their efficacy, however, is threatened by the emergence and …

Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel aminoalcohol quinolines with strong in vitro antimalarial activity

A Dassonville-Klimpt, J Schneider, C Damiani… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malaria is the fifth most lethal parasitic infections in the world. Herein, five new series of
aminoalcohol quinolines including fifty-two compounds were designed, synthesized and …

Hexahydroquinolines are antimalarial candidates with potent blood-stage and transmission-blocking activity

M Vanaerschot, L Lucantoni, T Li, JM Combrinck… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Antimalarial compounds with dual therapeutic and transmission-blocking activity are desired
as high-value partners for combination therapies. Here, we report the identification and …

Deaggregation of mutant Plasmodium yoelii de-ubiquitinase UBP1 alters MDR1 localization to confer multidrug resistance

R Xu, L Lin, Z Jiao, R Liang, Y Guo, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mutations in a Plasmodium de-ubiquitinase UBP1 have been linked to antimalarial drug
resistance. However, the UBP1-mediated drug-resistant mechanism remains unknown …

Using machine learning to predict synergistic antimalarial compound combinations with novel structures

DJ Mason, RT Eastman, RPI Lewis, IP Stott… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The parasite Plasmodium falciparum is the most lethal species of Plasmodium to cause
serious malaria infection in humans, and with resistance developing rapidly novel treatment …

Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance gene-1 polymorphisms in Northern Nigeria: implications for the continued use of artemether-lumefantrine in the region

A Adamu, MS Jada, HMS Haruna, BO Yakubu… - Malaria Journal, 2020 - Springer
Background The analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) in drug-resistance
associated genes is a commonly used strategy for the surveillance of anti-malarial drug …

[HTML][HTML] Protecting future antimalarials from the trap of resistance: Lessons from artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) failures

N Erhunse, D Sahal - Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Having faced increased clinical treatment failures with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-
PPQ), Cambodia swapped the first line artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) from …