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 …

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 …

Genome-wide and targeted CRISPR screens identify RNF213 as a mediator of interferon gamma–dependent pathogen restriction in human cells

SK Matta, HP Kohio, P Chandra… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
To define cellular immunity to the intracellular pathogen Toxoplasma gondii, we performed a
genome-wide CRISPR loss-of-function screen to identify genes important for (interferon …

Exploration of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases from eukaryotic parasites for drug development

J Gill, A Sharma - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
Parasitic diseases result in considerable human morbidity and mortality. The continuous
emergence and spread of new drug-resistant parasite strains is an obstacle to controlling …

Guidelines for the management of Toxoplasma gondii infection and disease in patients with haematological malignancies and after haematopoietic stem-cell …

R Aerts, V Mehra, AH Groll, R Martino… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Patients with haematological malignancies might develop life-threatening toxoplasmosis,
especially after allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). Reactivation of …

The determinants regulating Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoite development

M Pan, CC Ge, YM Fan, QW Jin, B Shen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular zoonotic pathogen capable of infecting almost
all cells of warm-blooded vertebrates. In intermediate hosts, this parasite reproduces …

Lipophilic bisphosphonates reduced cyst burden and ameliorated hyperactivity of mice chronically infected with Toxoplasma gondii

MA Sleda, ZF Pitafi, WZ Song, E Oldfield, SNJ Moreno - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
The current treatments for toxoplasmosis are only active against fast-growing tachyzoites,
present in acute infections, with little effect on slow-growing bradyzoites within tissue cysts …

Investigating Antiprotozoal Chemotherapies with Novel Proteomic Tools—Chances and Limitations: A Critical Review

J Müller, G Boubaker, N Müller, AC Uldry… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Identification of drug targets and biochemical investigations on mechanisms of action are
major issues in modern drug development. The present article is a critical review of the …

Phosphine-catalyzed [4+ 3] and [4+ 4] annulations of β′-acetoxy allenoates with N, N-dinucleophiles: access to 1, 3-diazepine and 1, 4-diazocine derivatives

C Ni, Z Liang, X Xu, F Yu, Y Zhao… - Organic Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Novel methods for constructing functionalized 1, 3-diazepine and 1, 4-diazocine derivatives
have been disclosed through phosphine-catalyzed [4+ 3] and [4+ 4] annulations of β …

Bicyclic Pyrrolidine Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii Phenylalanine t-RNA Synthetase with Antiparasitic Potency In Vitro and Brain Exposure

CC Ence, T Uddin, J Borrel, P Mittal, H Xie… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Previous studies have shown that bicyclic azetidines are potent and selective inhibitors of
apicomplexan phenylalanine tRNA synthetase (PheRS), leading to parasite growth …