[HTML][HTML] Challenges of drug-resistant malaria

S Sinha, B Medhi, R Sehgal - Parasite, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the past six decades, the drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum has become an
issue of utmost concern. Despite the remarkable progress that has been made in recent …

Antimalarial peptides: the long and the short of it

A Bell - Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Antimicrobial peptides include a diverse array of both natural and synthetic molecules
varying greatly in size, charge, hydrophobicity and secondary-structural features. Although …

iAMAP-SCM: a novel computational tool for large-scale identification of antimalarial peptides using estimated propensity scores of dipeptides

P Charoenkwan, N Schaduangrat, P Lio, MA Moni… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Antimalarial peptides (AMAPs) varying in length, amino acid composition, charge,
conformational structure, hydrophobicity, and amphipathicity reflect their diversity in …

In vitro and in vivo antimalarial activity of LZ1, a peptide derived from snake cathelicidin

Y Fang, X He, P Zhang, C Shen, J Mwangi, C Xu, G Mo… - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antimalarial drug resistance is an enormous global threat. Recently, antimicrobial peptides
(AMPs) are emerging as a new source of antimalarials. In this study, an AMP LZ1 derived …

Antiproliferative and antiplasmodial compounds from selected Streptomyces species

LH Rakotondraibe, R Rasolomampianina… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2015 - Elsevier
In continuation of our ongoing search for bioactive compounds from microbial extracts, we
performed antiproliferative and/or antimalarial assays on extracts of 806 microbial species …

Linear and cyclic dipeptides with antimalarial activity

L Pérez-Picaso, HF Olivo, R Argotte-Ramos… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2012 - Elsevier
Several natural and synthetic polypeptides possess important antimalarial activity. Shorter
peptides with potent antimalarial activity have also been described, among them linear di …

New linear antiplasmodial peptides related to angiotensin II

AF Silva, MDT Torres, LS Silva, FL Alves, AAS Pinheiro… - Malaria Journal, 2015 - Springer
Background Antiplasmodial activities of angiotensin II and its analogues have been
extensively investigated in Plasmodium gallinaceum and Plasmodium falciparum parasite …

Systematic review: insight into antimalarial peptide

S Sinha, A Singh, B Medhi, R Sehgal - International Journal of Peptide …, 2016 - Springer
Antimalarial peptides varying in size, sequence, charge, conformation and structure,
hydrophobicity and amphipathicity reflect their heterogeneity in antimalarial activity. Due to …

Effects of the angiotensin II Ala-scan analogs in erythrocytic cycle of Plasmodium falciparum (in vitro) and Plasmodium gallinaceum (ex vivo)

AF Silva, L de Souza Silva, FL Alves… - Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The anti-plasmodium activity of angiotensin II and its analogs have been described in
different plasmodium species. Here we synthesized angiotensin II Ala-scan analogs to verify …

Antiplasmodial activity of short peptide-based compounds

A Mahindra, RP Gangwal, S Bansal, NE Goldfarb… - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Three series of short peptide-based compounds were synthesized, which upon evaluation
against chloroquine-sensitive (D6) and chloroquine-resistant (W2) strains of Plasmodium …