Quinoline drug–heme interactions and implications for antimalarial cytostatic versus cytocidal activities

AP Gorka, A de Dios, PD Roepe - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Historically, the most successful molecular target for antimalarial drugs has been heme
biomineralization within the malarial parasite digestive vacuole. Heme released from …

Heme and blood-feeding parasites: friends or foes?

SQ Toh, A Glanfield, GN Gobert, MK Jones - Parasites & vectors, 2010 - Springer
Hemoparasites, like malaria and schistosomes, are constantly faced with the challenges of
storing and detoxifying large quantities of heme, released from their catabolism of host …

Antimalarial quinoline drugs inhibit β-hematin and increase free hemin catalyzing peroxidative reactions and inhibition of cysteine proteases

T Herraiz, H Guillén, D González-Peña, VJ Arán - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Malaria caused by Plasmodium affects millions people worldwide. Plasmodium consumes
hemoglobin during its intraerythrocytic stage leaving toxic heme. Parasite detoxifies free …

An essential vesicular-trafficking phospholipase mediates neutral lipid synthesis and contributes to hemozoin formation in Plasmodium falciparum

M Asad, Y Yamaryo-Botté, ME Hossain, V Thakur… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Plasmodium falciparum is the pathogen responsible for the most devastating
form of human malaria. As it replicates asexually in the erythrocytes of its human host, the …

Composition, antioxidant and chemotherapeutic properties of the essential oils from two Origanum species growing in Pakistan

AI Hussain, F Anwar, S Rasheed, PS Nigam… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
The GC-MS analyses of Origanum majorana L.(OME) and Origanum vulgare L.(OVE),
Lamiaceae, essential oils helped identification of 39 (96.4% of the total oils) and 43 (92.9 …

[HTML][HTML] Hemoglobin degradation in malaria-infected erythrocytes determined from live cell magnetophoresis

LR Moore, H Fujioka, PS Williams… - … : official publication of …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During intra-erythrocytic development, malaria trophozoites digest hemoglobin, which leads
to parasite growth and asexual replication while accumulating toxic heme. To avoid death …

Malaria parasite heme biosynthesis promotes and griseofulvin protects against cerebral malaria in mice

M Chandana, A Anand, S Ghosh, R Das… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Heme-biosynthetic pathway of malaria parasite is dispensable for asexual stages, but
essential for mosquito and liver stages. Despite having backup mechanisms to acquire …

Microwaves can kill malaria parasites non-thermally

LM Coronado, JA Stoute, CT Nadovich… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Malaria, which infected more than 240 million people and killed around six hundred
thousand only in 2021, has reclaimed territory after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Together …

A near-infrared “matchbox size” spectrometer to detect and quantify malaria parasitemia

JA Adegoke, K Kochan, P Heraud… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
New point-of-care diagnostic approaches for malaria that are sensitive to low parasitemia,
easy to use in a field setting, and affordable are urgently required to meet the World Health …

Curcumin-Arteether Combination Therapy of Plasmodium berghei-Infected Mice Prevents Recrudescence Through Immunomodulation

PG Vathsala, C Dende, VA Nagaraj, D Bhattacharya… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Earlier studies in this laboratory have shown the potential of artemisinin-curcumin
combination therapy in experimental malaria. In a parasite recrudescence model in mice …