Antimalarial drug resistance: linking Plasmodium falciparum parasite biology to the clinic

B Blasco, D Leroy, DA Fidock - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The global adoption of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) in the early 2000s
heralded a new era in effectively treating drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria …

Antimalarial drug resistance in Africa: the calm before the storm?

MD Conrad, PJ Rosenthal - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2019 - thelancet.com
Antimalarial drug resistance, in particular resistance to Plasmodium falciparum, challenges
the treatment and control of malaria. In this Review, we summarise evolving patterns of …

Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria

KJ Wicht, S Mok, DA Fidock - Annual review of microbiology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance, particularly to
artemisinin and its partner drugs, is a top priority. Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant …

Chloroquine resistance evolution in Plasmodium falciparum is mediated by the putative amino acid transporter AAT1

A Amambua-Ngwa, KA Button-Simons, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria parasites break down host haemoglobin into peptides and amino acids in the
digestive vacuole for export to the parasite cytoplasm for growth: interrupting this process is …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies

KE Ward, DA Fidock, JL Bridgford - Current opinion in microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Mutant K13-mediated artemisinin resistance involves reduced hemoglobin
endocytosis.•Artemisinin partial resistance has emerged in Africa.•Novel PfCRT mutations …

Emerging Southeast Asian PfCRT mutations confer Plasmodium falciparum resistance to the first-line antimalarial piperaquine

LS Ross, SK Dhingra, S Mok, T Yeo, KJ Wicht… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The widely used antimalarial combination therapy dihydroartemisinin+ piperaquine (DHA+
PPQ) has failed in Cambodia. Here, we perform a genomic analysis that reveals a rapid …

Local emergence in Amazonia of Plasmodium falciparum k13 C580Y mutants associated with in vitro artemisinin resistance

LC Mathieu, H Cox, AM Early, S Mok, Y Lazrek… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Antimalarial drug resistance has historically arisen through convergent de novo mutations in
Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations in Southeast Asia and South America. For the …

Globally prevalent PfMDR1 mutations modulate Plasmodium falciparum susceptibility to artemisinin-based combination therapies

MI Veiga, SK Dhingra, PP Henrich, J Straimer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Antimalarial chemotherapy, globally reliant on artemisinin-based combination therapies
(ACTs), is threatened by the spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum parasites …

Structure and drug resistance of the Plasmodium falciparum transporter PfCRT

J Kim, YZ Tan, KJ Wicht, SK Erramilli, SK Dhingra… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The emergence and spread of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum impedes global efforts
to control and eliminate malaria. For decades, treatment of malaria has relied on …

Map** the malaria parasite druggable genome by using in vitro evolution and chemogenomics

AN Cowell, ES Istvan, AK Lukens, MG Gomez-Lorenzo… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Chemogenetic characterization through in vitro evolution combined with whole-genome
analysis can identify antimalarial drug targets and drug-resistance genes. We performed a …