[HTML][HTML] New approaches in antimalarial drug discovery and development: a review

ACC Aguiar, EMM da Rocha, NB de Souza… - Memorias do Instituto …, 2012 - SciELO Brasil
Malaria remains a major world health problem following the emergence and spread of
Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to the majority of antimalarial drugs. This problem …

Folate metabolism in human malaria parasites—75 years on

IB Müller, JE Hyde - Molecular and biochemical parasitology, 2013 - Elsevier
Malaria still poses one of the most serious threats to human health worldwide and the
prevailing lack of effective, clinically licensed, vaccines means that prophylaxis and …

[HTML][HTML] Malária: aspectos históricos e quimioterapia

TCC França, MG Santos, JD Figueroa-Villar - Química Nova, 2008 - SciELO Brasil
Malaria is still a very serious worldwide public health problem affecting between 300 and
500 million people and causing from 1.0 to 2.5 million deaths annually. The major problems …

[HTML][HTML] Dihydrofolate reductase, thymidylate synthase, and serine hydroxy methyltransferase: successful targets against some infectious diseases

H Shamshad, R Bakri, AZ Mirza - Molecular Biology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Parasitic diseases have a serious impact on the world in terms of health and economics and
are responsible for worldwide mortality and morbidity. The present review features the …

Vitamin B metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum as a source of drug targets

IB Müller, JE Hyde, C Wrenger - Trends in parasitology, 2010 - cell.com
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum depends primarily on nutrient sources from its
human host. Most compounds, such as glucose, purines, amino acids, as well as cofactors …

Antimalarial inhibitors targeting serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) with in vivo efficacy and analysis of their binding mode based on X-ray cocrystal structures

G Schwertz, MC Witschel, M Rottmann… - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Target-based approaches toward new antimalarial treatments are highly valuable to prevent
resistance development. We report several series of pyrazolopyran-based inhibitors …

Theoretical investigation of repurposed drugs potentially capable of binding to the catalytic site and the secondary binding pocket of subunit A of ricin

TCC França, FD Botelho, ML Drummond… - Acs Omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recently, we reported a library of 82 compounds, selected from different databanks through
virtual screening and docking studies, and pointed to 6 among them as potential repurposed …

Analysis of Bacillus anthracis nucleoside hydrolase via in silico docking with inhibitors and molecular dynamics simulation

AP Guimarães, AA Oliveira, EFF da Cunha… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Springer
As the enzyme nucleoside hydrolase (NH) is widely found in nature but has not yet been
detected in mammals, it is considered an ideal target in the development of chemotherapy …

Design of new chemotherapeutics against the deadly anthrax disease. Docking and molecular dynamics studies of inhibitors containing pyrrolidine and …

AP Guimaraes, AA Oliveira, EFF da Cunha… - Journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a dangerous biological warfare agent
already used for both military and terrorist purposes. An important selective target for …

Computer-aided molecular design of 1H-imidazole-2,4-diamine derivatives as potential inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum DHFR enzyme

L Adane, PV Bharatam - Journal of molecular modeling, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Design and discovery of new potential inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum
dihydrofolate reductase (PfDHFR), equally active against both the wild-type and mutant …