Antimalarial drug resistance and novel targets for antimalarial drug discovery

MA Shibeshi, ZD Kifle, SA Atnafie - Infection and drug resistance, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Malaria is among the most devastating and widespread tropical parasitic diseases in which
most prevalent in developing countries. Antimalarial drug resistance is the ability of a …

Candida albicans Secreted Aspartyl Proteinases in Virulence and Pathogenesis

JR Naglik, SJ Challacombe, B Hube - Microbiology and molecular …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
Candida albicans is the most common fungal pathogen of humans and has developed an
extensive repertoire of putative virulence mechanisms that allows successful colonization …

Protease inhibitors from marine actinobacteria as a potential source for antimalarial compound

L Karthik, G Kumar, T Keswani, A Bhattacharyya… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The study was planned to screen the marine actinobacterial extract for the protease inhibitor
activity and its anti-Pf activity under in vitro and in vivo conditions. Out of 100 isolates, only 3 …

Quinoline antimalarials: mechanisms of action and resistance and prospects for new agents

M Foley, L Tilley - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 1998 - Elsevier
Quinoline-containing antimalarial drugs, such as chloroquine, quinine and mefloquine, are
mainstays of chemotherapy against malaria. The molecular basis of the action of these …

Cysteine proteases of parasitic organisms

M Sajid, JH McKerrow - Molecular and biochemical parasitology, 2002 - Elsevier
Cysteine proteases play numerous indispensable roles in the biology of parasitic organisms.
Aside from previously known general catabolic functions and protein processing, cysteine …

Human and parasitic papain-like cysteine proteases: their role in physiology and pathology and recent developments in inhibitor design

F Lecaille, J Kaleta, D Brömme - Chemical reviews, 2002 - ACS Publications
Proteases can be categorized based on their substrate specificities or mechanisms of
catalysis. Enzymes cleaving within a polypeptide chain are named endopeptidases, and …

Synthesis and structure− activity relationship study of potent trypanocidal thio semicarbazone inhibitors of the trypanosomal cysteine protease cruzain

X Du, C Guo, E Hansell, PS Doyle… - Journal of medicinal …, 2002 - ACS Publications
American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas' disease, is the leading cause of heart disease in
Latin America. Currently there is an urgent need to develop antitrypanosomal therapy due to …

α2-macroglobulin: an evolutionarily conserved arm of the innate immune system

PB Armstrong, JP Quigley - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 1999 - Elsevier
All animals and plants have immune systems that protect them from the diversity of
pathogens that would otherwise threaten their survival. The different components of the …

Cysteine proteases of malaria parasites

PJ Rosenthal - International journal for parasitology, 2004 - Elsevier
A number of cysteine proteases of malaria parasites have been described, and many more
putative cysteine proteases are suggested by analysis of the Plasmodium falciparum …

Inhibition of glutathione-dependent degradation of heme by chloroquine and amodiaquine as a possible basis for their antimalarial mode of action

H Ginsburg, O Famin, J Zhang, M Krugliak - Biochemical pharmacology, 1998 - Elsevier
We propose here a new and detailed model for the antimalarial action of chloroquine (CQ),
based on the its ability to inhibit degradation of heme by glutathione. Heme, which is toxic to …