Drugs in development for toxoplasmosis: advances, challenges, and current status

PH Alday, JS Doggett - Drug design, development and therapy, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Toxoplasma gondii causes fatal and debilitating brain and eye diseases. Medicines that are
currently used to treat toxoplasmosis commonly have toxic side effects and require …

Small-molecule kinase inhibitors for the treatment of nononcologic diseases

Z Xie, X Yang, Y Duan, J Han… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Great successes have been achieved in developing small-molecule kinase inhibitors as
anticancer therapeutic agents. However, kinase deregulation plays essential roles not only …

A sharp T-cell antigen receptor signaling threshold for T-cell proliferation

BB Au-Yeung, J Zikherman… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling is essential for activation, proliferation, and effector
function of T cells. Modulation of both intensity and duration of TCR signaling can regulate …

The calcium signaling toolkit of the Apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium spp

S Lourido, SNJ Moreno - Cell calcium, 2015 - Elsevier
Apicomplexan parasites have complex life cycles, frequently split between different hosts
and reliant on rapid responses as the parasites react to changing environmental conditions …

Human toxoplasmosis–Searching for novel chemotherapeutics

M Antczak, K Dzitko, H Długońska - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2016 - Elsevier
The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular parasite, is an etiological agent
of human and animal toxoplasmosis. Treatment regimens for T. gondii-infected patients …

Promising Drug Targets and Compounds with Anti-Toxoplasma gondii Activity

M Silva, C Teixeira, P Gomes, M Borges - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the globally distributed protozoan parasite
Toxoplasma gondii, which infects around one-third of the world population. This disease …

Development of an Orally Available and Central Nervous System (CNS) Penetrant Toxoplasma gondii Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 1 (TgCDPK1) Inhibitor with Minimal …

RSR Vidadala, KL Rivas, KK Ojo… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
New therapies are needed for the treatment of toxoplasmosis, which is a disease caused by
the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. To this end, we previously developed a potent …

Recent progress on anti-Toxoplasma drugs discovery: Design, synthesis and screening

Y Deng, T Wu, SQ Zhai, CH Li - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Toxoplasma gondii severely threaten the health of immunocompromised patients and
pregnant women as this parasite can cause several disease, including brain and eye …

Unpacking the Pathogen Box—an open source tool for fighting neglected tropical disease

CGL Veale - ChemMedChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pathogen Box is a 400‐strong collection of drug‐like compounds, selected for
their potential against several of the world's most important neglected tropical diseases …

Analysis of CDPK1 targets identifies a trafficking adaptor complex that regulates microneme exocytosis in Toxoplasma

AW Chan, M Broncel, E Yifrach, NR Haseley… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Apicomplexan parasites use Ca 2+-regulated exocytosis to secrete essential virulence
factors from specialized organelles called micronemes. Ca 2+-dependent protein kinases …