Malaria therapeutics: are we close enough?

H Tripathi, P Bhalerao, S Singh, H Arya, BS Alotaibi… - Parasites & …, 2023 - Springer
Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by the apicomplexan protozoan parasite
Plasmodium. Malaria is a significant health problem and the leading cause of …

Parasite and host kinases as targets for antimalarials

HW Ong, J Adderley, AB Tobin… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction The deployment of Artemisinin-based combination therapies and
transmission control measures led to a decrease in the global malaria burden over the …

A Plasmodium falciparum MORC protein complex modulates epigenetic control of gene expression through interaction with heterochromatin

MK Singh, VA Bonnell, IT Da Silva, VF Santiago… - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Dynamic control of gene expression is critical for blood stage development of malaria
parasites. Here, we used multi-omic analyses to investigate transcriptional regulation by the …

Synthetic indole and melatonin derivatives exhibit antimalarial activity on the cell cycle of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

DC Schuck, AK Jordão, M Nakabashi… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Discovering the mechanisms by which cell signaling controls the cell cycle of the human
malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is fundamental to designing more effective …

The structurally related auxin and melatonin tryptophan‐derivatives and their roles in Arabidopsis thaliana and in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

FC Koyama, TLG Carvalho, E Alves… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Indole compounds are involved in a range of functions in many organisms. In the human
malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, melatonin and other tryptophan derivatives are …

Synthesis and antiplasmodial activity of novel indoleamide derivatives bearing sulfonamide and triazole pharmacophores

N Devender, S Gunjan, R Tripathi… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to the recent reports of growing parasite resistance to artemisinins and other
antimalarial drugs, development of new antimalarial chemotypes is an urgent priority. Here …

Parasite and host erythrocyte kinomics of Plasmodium infection

J Adderley, T Williamson, C Doerig - Trends in Parasitology, 2021 - cell.com
Malaria remains a heavy public health and socioeconomic burden in tropical and
subtropical regions. Increasing resistance against front-line treatments implies that novel …

Constitutive photomorphogenesis protein 1 (COP 1) and COP 9 signalosome, evolutionarily conserved photomorphogenic proteins as possible targets of melatonin

EJ Sanchez‐Barcelo, MD Mediavilla… - Journal of Pineal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ubiquitin proteasome system has been proposed as a possible mechanism involved in
the multiple actions of melatonin. COP 1 (constitutive photomorphogenesis protein 1), a …

Malaria: therapeutic implications of melatonin

V Srinivasan, DW Spence, A Moscovitch… - Journal of pineal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Malaria, which infects more than 300 million people annually, is a serious disease.
Epidemiological surveys indicate that of those who are affected, malaria will claim the lives …

[HTML][HTML] The potential use of melatonin to treat protozoan parasitic infections: A review

A Daryani, M Montazeri, AS Pagheh, M Sharif… - Biomedicine & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a circadian hormone produced in
vertebrates by the pineal gland and other organs. Melatonin is believed to influence immune …