Purine and pyrimidine pathways as targets in Plasmodium falciparum

M Belen Cassera, Y Zhang… - Current topics in …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the tropics. Chemotherapeutic and
vector control strategies have been applied for more than a century but have not been …

Enzymatic transition states and drug design

VL Schramm - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition state theory teaches that chemically stable mimics of enzymatic transition states
will bind tightly to their cognate enzymes. Kinetic isotope effects combined with …

Reconstruction and flux‐balance analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum metabolic network

G Plata, TL Hsiao, KL Olszewski, M Llinás… - Molecular systems …, 2010 - embopress.org
Genome‐scale metabolic reconstructions can serve as important tools for hypothesis
generation and high‐throughput data integration. Here, we present a metabolic network …

Sampling protein motion and solvent effect during ligand binding

V Limongelli, L Marinelli, S Cosconati… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
An exhaustive description of the molecular recognition mechanism between a ligand and its
biological target is of great value because it provides the opportunity for an exogenous …

Moonlighting adenosine deaminase: a target protein for drug development

A Cortés, E Gracia, E Moreno, J Mallol… - Medicinal research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Interest in adenosine deaminase (ADA) in the context of medicine has mainly focused on its
enzymatic activity. This is justified by the importance of the reaction catalyzed by ADA not …

1, 3‐Diazepine: A privileged scaffold in medicinal chemistry

Y Malki, J Martinez, N Masurier - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Privileged structures have been widely used as effective templates for drug discovery. While
benzo‐1, 4‐diazepine constitutes the first historical example of such a structure, the 1, 3 …

Development of a target identification approach using native mass spectrometry

M Liu, WC Van Voorhis, RJ Quinn - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
A key step in the development of new pharmaceutical drugs is the identification of the
molecular target and distinguishing this from all other gene products that respond indirectly …

Transition path sampling based calculations of free energies for enzymatic reactions: the case of human methionine adenosyl transferase and plasmodium vivax …

SG Balasubramani, SD Schwartz - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transition path sampling (TPS) is widely used for the calculations of reaction rates, transition
state structures, and reaction coordinates of condensed phase systems. Here we discuss a …

Novel Plasmodium falciparum metabolic network reconstruction identifies shifts associated with clinical antimalarial resistance

MA Carey, JA Papin, JL Guler - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Malaria remains a major public health burden and resistance has emerged to
every antimalarial on the market, including the frontline drug, artemisinin. Our limited …

TLR8 is activated by 5ʹ-methylthioinosine, a Plasmodium falciparum-derived intermediate of the purine salvage pathway

G Köllisch, FV Solis, HL Obermann, J Eckert, T Müller… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
The innate immune recognition of the malaria-causing pathogen Plasmodium falciparum (P.
falciparum) is not fully explored. Here, we identify the nucleoside 5ʹ-methylthioinosine …