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 …

Past, current, and potential treatments for cryptosporidiosis in humans and farm animals: A comprehensive review

SM Khan, WH Witola - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The intracellular protozoan parasite of the genus Cryptosporidium is among the leading
causes of waterborne diarrheal disease outbreaks throughout the world. The parasite is …

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2020: extending immunopharmacology content and introducing the IUPHAR/MMV Guide to MALARIA …

JF Armstrong, E Faccenda, SD Harding… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (www. guidetopharmacology. org) is
an open-access, expert-curated database of molecular interactions between ligands and …

The biology of the intestinal intracellular parasite Cryptosporidium

A Guérin, B Striepen - Cell host & microbe, 2020 - cell.com
Cryptosporidium emerged as a leading global cause of severe diarrheal disease in children.
The parasite occupies a unique intracellular niche at the brush border of intestinal epithelial …

Nonclassical phenyl bioisosteres as effective replacements in a series of novel open-source antimalarials

EG Tse, SD Houston, CM Williams… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The replacement of one chemical motif with another that is broadly similar is a common
method in medicinal chemistry to modulate the physical and biological properties of a …

Controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development

RKM Choy, AL Bourgeois… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The timelines for developing vaccines against infectious diseases are lengthy, and often
vaccines that reach the stage of large phase 3 field trials fail to provide the desired level of …

Genetic crosses within and between species of Cryptosporidium

S Shaw, IS Cohn, RP Baptista, G Xia… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Parasites and their hosts are engaged in reciprocal coevolution that balances competing
mechanisms of virulence, resistance, and evasion. This often leads to host specificity, but …

MalDA, accelerating malaria drug discovery

T Yang, S Ottilie, ES Istvan, KP Godinez-Macias… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a consortium of 15 leading scientific laboratories.
The aim of MalDA is to improve and accelerate the early antimalarial drug discovery process …

Roles of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in immune regulation and immune diseases

A Nie, B Sun, Z Fu, D Yu - Cell death & disease, 2019 - nature.com
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) play a vital role in protein synthesis by linking amino
acids to their cognate transfer RNAs (tRNAs). This typical function has been well recognized …

Roles of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in cancer

Z Zhou, B Sun, A Nie, D Yu, M Bian - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (ARSs) catalyze the ligation of amino acids to their cognate
transfer RNAs (tRNAs), thus playing an important role in protein synthesis. In eukaryotic …