Malaria biology and disease pathogenesis: insights for new treatments

LH Miller, HC Ackerman, X Su, TE Wellems - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, an infectious disease caused by a parasitic protozoan,
claims the lives of nearly a million children each year in Africa alone and is a top public …

Antimalarial pharmacology and therapeutics of atovaquone

GL Nixon, DM Moss, AE Shone… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Atovaquone is used as a fixed-dose combination with proguanil (Malarone) for treating
children and adults with uncomplicated malaria or as chemoprophylaxis for preventing …

A secondary mode of action of polymyxins against Gram-negative bacteria involves the inhibition of NADH-quinone oxidoreductase activity

ZZ Deris, J Akter, S Sivanesan, KD Roberts… - The Journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Polymyxin B and colistin were examined for their ability to inhibit the type II NADH-quinone
oxidoreductases (NDH-2) of three species of Gram-negative bacteria. Polymyxin B and …

Quinolone-3-diarylethers: a new class of antimalarial drug

A Nilsen, AN LaCrue, KL White, IP Forquer… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
The goal for develo** new antimalarial drugs is to find a molecule that can target multiple
stages of the parasite's life cycle, thus impacting prevention, treatment, and transmission of …

Comprehensive review on various strategies for antimalarial drug discovery

M Mishra, VK Mishra, V Kashaw, AK Iyer… - European journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The resistance of malaria parasites to existing drugs carries on growing and progressively
limiting our ability to manage this severe disease and finally lead to a massive global health …

Antimalarial application of quinones: A recent update

OPS Patel, RM Beteck, LJ Legoabe - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Atovaquone belongs to a naphthoquinone class of drugs and is used in combination with
proguanil (Malarone) for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria caused by …

Metabolomic profiling of the malaria box reveals antimalarial target pathways

EL Allman, HJ Painter, J Samra… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2016 - journals.asm.org
The threat of widespread drug resistance to frontline antimalarials has renewed the urgency
for identifying inexpensive chemotherapeutic compounds that are effective against …

Antiplasmodial and antimalarial activities of quinolone derivatives: An overview

YL Fan, XW Cheng, JB Wu, M Liu, FZ Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases globally. Considering the
growing spread of resistance, development of new and effective antimalarials remains an …

Recent insight into the biological activities and SAR of quinolone derivatives as multifunctional scaffold

V Sharma, R Das, DK Mehta, S Gupta… - Bioorganic & Medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quinolones are a type of bicyclic privileged building block with immense therapeutic
potential. They are known for their crucial role in modulating numerous diseases conditions …

Complexome profile of Toxoplasma gondii mitochondria identifies divergent subunits of respiratory chain complexes including new subunits of cytochrome bc1 …

AE Maclean, HR Bridges, MF Silva, S Ding… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The mitochondrial electron transport chain (mETC) and F1Fo-ATP synthase are of central
importance for energy and metabolism in eukaryotic cells. The Apicomplexa, important …