Know your enemy: understanding the role of PfCRT in drug resistance could lead to new antimalarial tactics

RL Summers, MN Nash, RE Martin - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2012 - Springer
The prevention and treatment of malaria is heavily dependent on antimalarial drugs.
However, beginning with the emergence of chloroquine (CQ)-resistant Plasmodium …

Current understanding of the molecular basis of chloroquine-resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

H Jiang, DA Joy, T Furuya, XZ Su - Journal of postgraduate …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Chloroquine (CQ) is the most successful antimalarial drug ever discovered. Unfortunately,
parasites resistant to the drug eventually emerged after its large scale use and are now …

Molecular mechanisms for drug hypersensitivity induced by the malaria parasite's chloroquine resistance transporter

SN Richards, MN Nash, ES Baker, MW Webster… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum 'chloroquine resistance transporter'(PfCRT) confer
resistance to chloroquine (CQ) and related antimalarials by enabling the protein to transport …

pfcrt is more than the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance gene: a functional and evolutionary perspective

RA Cooper, CL Hartwig, MT Ferdig - Acta tropica, 2005 - Elsevier
Genetic, physiological and pharmacological studies are gradually revealing the molecular
basis of chloroquine resistance (CQR) in the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum …

PfCRT and its role in antimalarial drug resistance

A Ecker, AM Lehane, J Clain, DA Fidock - Trends in parasitology, 2012 - cell.com
Plasmodium falciparum resistance to chloroquine, the former gold standard antimalarial
drug, is mediated primarily by mutant forms of the chloroquine resistance transporter …

Phosphomimetic substitution at Ser-33 of the chloroquine resistance transporter PfCRT reconstitutes drug responses in Plasmodium falciparum

CP Sanchez, SM Cubel, B Nyboer… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
The chloroquine resistance transporter PfCRT of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium
falciparum confers resistance to the former first-line antimalarial drug chloroquine, and it …

PfCRT mutations conferring piperaquine resistance in falciparum malaria shape the kinetics of quinoline drug binding and transport

GM Gomez, G D'Arrigo, CP Sanchez, F Berger… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The chloroquine resistance transporter (PfCRT) confers resistance to a wide range of
quinoline and quinoline-like antimalarial drugs in Plasmodium falciparum, with local drug …

Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter, PfCRT, enlarge the parasite's food vacuole and alter drug sensitivities

S Pulcini, HM Staines, AH Lee, SH Shafik, G Bouyer… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter, PfCRT, are the
major determinant of chloroquine resistance in this lethal human malaria parasite. Here, we …

Quinine Dimers Are Potent Inhibitors of the Plasmodium falciparum Chloroquine Resistance Transporter and Are Active against Quinoline-Resistant P. falciparum

CA Hrycyna, RL Summers, AM Lehane… - ACS chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Chloroquine (CQ) resistance in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is
primarily conferred by mutations in the “chloroquine resistance transporter”(PfCRT). The …

Multiple drugs compete for transport via the Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance transporter at distinct but interdependent sites

S Bellanca, RL Summers, M Meyrath, A Dave… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Mutations in the" chloroquine resistance transporter"(PfCRT) are a major determinant of
drug resistance in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. We have previously shown …