Transition Metal Complexes as Antimalarial Agents: A Review

A Mandal, R Kushwaha, AA Mandal, S Bajpai… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In antimalarial drug development research, overcoming drug resistance has been a major
challenge for researchers. Nowadays, several drugs like chloroquine, mefloquine …

Computational multi‐target approach to target essential enzymes of Leishmania donovani using comparative molecular dynamic simulations and MMPBSA analysis

D Saha, A Nath Jha - Phytochemical Analysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania donovani. The purine and
pyrimidine pathways are essential for L. donovani. Simultaneously inhibiting multiple targets …

Deciphering the role of protein phosphatases in apicomplexa: the future of innovative therapeutics?

A Fréville, B Gnangnon, AS Khelifa, M Gissot, J Khalife… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parasites belonging to the Apicomplexa phylum still represent a major public health and
world-wide socioeconomic burden that is greatly amplified by the spread of resistances …

An in silico quest for next-generation antimalarial drugs by targeting Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter protein: a multi-pronged approach

A Altharawi, Y Riadi… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of artemisinin resistance by malaria parasites is a major challenge in the
fight against malaria, thus posing serious threat to the public health across the world. To …

Target-based virtual screening of natural compounds identifies a potent antimalarial with selective falcipain-2 inhibitory activity

A Uddin, S Gupta, T Mohammad, D Shahi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We employed a comprehensive approach of target-based virtual high-throughput screening
to find potential hits from the ZINC database of natural compounds against cysteine …

Comparative Proteomics and Genome-Wide Druggability Analyses Prioritized Promising Therapeutic Targets against Drug-Resistant Leishmania tropica

S Aiman, AK Alzahrani, F Ali, Abida, M Imran, M Kamal… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Leishmania tropica is a tropical parasite causing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in humans.
Leishmaniasis is a serious public health threat, affecting an estimated 350 million people in …

Core-genome-mediated promising alternative drug and multi-epitope vaccine targets prioritization against infectious Clostridium difficile

S Aiman, QA Farooq, Z Han, M Aslam, J Zhang, A Khan… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection is challenging worldwide owing to its high
morbidity and mortality rates. C. difficile is currently being classified as an urgent threat by …

In silico and in vivo evaluations of multistage antiplasmodial potency and toxicity profiling of n-Hexadecanoic acid derived from Vernonia amygdalina

FID Afolayan, RA Odeyemi, RA Salaam - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Despite the widely reported potentials of n-Hexadecanoic acid (HA) as a
bioactive, its multi-stage antiplasmodial activity and toxicity profiles remain largely unknown …

Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins of Malaria Parasites during the Life Cycle

E Schwarzer, O Skorokhod - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are essential for regulating protein functions,
influencing various fundamental processes in eukaryotes. These include, but are not limited …

Molecular modelling, cytotoxicity & biological investigation of novel fluorinated diphenylamine chalcone derivatives

A Shah, K Desai, A Bhanusali, N Malek, N Naik… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A unique series of 1-(3-(3, 4-difluorophenyl) amino) phenyl) ethan-1-one linked
fluorinated diphenylamine chalcones (A1-A7) were synthesized and characterized by NMR …