Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

B Blasco, D Leroy, DA Fidock - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The global adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the early 2000s
heralded a new era in effectively treating drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria …

Drug resistance in Plasmodium

K Haldar, S Bhattacharjee, I Safeukui - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
A marked decrease in malaria-related deaths worldwide has been attributed to the
administration of effective antimalarials against Plasmodium falciparum, in particular …

COVID-19: attacks the 1-beta chain of hemoglobin and captures the porphyrin to inhibit human heme metabolism

L Wenzhong, L Hualan - 2020 - chemrxiv.org
The novel coronavirus pneumonia is a contagious acute respiratory disease caused by the
SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. The pathogenic mechanism of the novel coronavirus is unknown …

[PDF][PDF] Functional profiling of a Plasmodium genome reveals an abundance of essential genes

E Bushell, AR Gomes, T Sanderson, B Anar, G Girling… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The genomes of malaria parasites contain many genes of unknown function. To assist drug
development through the identification of essential genes and pathways, we have measured …

[HTML][HTML] Haem-activated promiscuous targeting of artemisinin in Plasmodium falciparum

J Wang, CJ Zhang, WN Chia, CCY Loh, Z Li… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The mechanism of action of artemisinin and its derivatives, the most potent of the anti-
malarial drugs, is not completely understood. Here we present an unbiased chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine

LS Ross, SK Dhingra, S Mok, T Yeo, KJ Wicht… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The widely used antimalarial combination therapy dihydroartemisinin+ piperaquine (DHA+
PPQ) has failed in Cambodia. Here, we perform a genomic analysis that reveals a rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Globally prevalent PfMDR1 mutations modulate Plasmodium falciparum susceptibility to artemisinin-based combination therapies

MI Veiga, SK Dhingra, PP Henrich, J Straimer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Antimalarial chemotherapy, globally reliant on artemisinin-based combination therapies
(ACTs), is threatened by the spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasites …

[HTML][HTML] Cytokines and chemokines in cerebral malaria pathogenesis

J Dunst, F Kamena, K Matuschewski - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral malaria is among the major causes of malaria-associated mortality and effective
adjunctive therapeutic strategies are currently lacking. Central pathophysiological processes …

The Iron age of host–microbe interactions

MP Soares, G Weiss - EMBO reports, 2015 - embopress.org
Microbes exert a major impact on human health and disease by either promoting or
disrupting homeostasis, in the latter instance leading to the development of infectious …

[HTML][HTML] Drug targets for resistant malaria: historic to future perspectives

S Kumar, TR Bhardwaj, DN Prasad… - Biomedicine & …, 2018 - Elsevier
New antimalarial targets are the prime need for the discovery of potent drug candidates. In
order to fulfill this objective, antimalarial drug researches are focusing on promising targets …