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 …

Natural products from cyanobacteria: Focus on beneficial activities

J Demay, C Bernard, A Reinhardt, B Marie - Marine drugs, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms that colonize diverse environments
worldwide, ranging from ocean to freshwaters, soils, and extreme environments. Their …

Antiplasmodial natural products: an update

N Tajuddeen, FR Van Heerden - Malaria journal, 2019 - Springer
Background Malaria remains a significant public health challenge in regions of the world
where it is endemic. An unprecedented decline in malaria incidences was recorded during …

Transmission-blocking drugs for malaria elimination

LM Birkholtz, P Alano, D Leroy - Trends in parasitology, 2022 - cell.com
Preventing human-to-mosquito transmission of malaria parasites provides possible
solutions to interrupt the malaria parasite life cycle for malaria elimination. The development …

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 …

Towards next-generation treatment options to combat Plasmodium falciparum malaria

J Okombo, DA Fidock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria, which is caused by infection of red blood cells with Plasmodium parasites, can be
fatal in non-immune individuals if left untreated. The recent approval of the pre-erythrocytic …

The latest automated docking technologies for novel drug discovery

J Caballero - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Molecular docking has been consolidated as one of the most important methods
in the molecular modeling field. It has been recognized as a prominent tool in the study of …

Mitigating the risk of antimalarial resistance via covalent dual-subunit inhibition of the Plasmodium proteasome

I Deni, BH Stokes, KE Ward, KJ Fairhurst… - Cell chemical …, 2023 - cell.com
The Plasmodium falciparum proteasome constitutes a promising antimalarial target, with
multiple chemotypes potently and selectively inhibiting parasite proliferation and synergizing …

Advances in omics-based methods to identify novel targets for malaria and other parasitic protozoan infections

AN Cowell, EA Winzeler - Genome medicine, 2019 - Springer
A major advance in antimalarial drug discovery has been the shift towards cell-based
phenotypic screening, with notable progress in the screening of compounds against the …

Marine cyanobacteria: A source of lead compounds and their clinically-relevant molecular targets

LT Tan, MY Phyo - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The prokaryotic filamentous marine cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microbes that are
found in diverse marine habitats, ranging from epiphytic to endolithic communities. Their …