A review on diverse heterocyclic compounds as the privileged scaffolds in antimalarial drug discovery

PN Kalaria, SC Karad, DK Raval - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The upward extend of malaria collectively with the emergence of resistance against
predictable drugs has put enormous pressure on public health systems to introduce new …

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 …

Identification of a novel binding mechanism of Quinoline based molecules with lactate dehydrogenase of Plasmodium falciparum

R Singh, V Bhardwaj, R Purohit - Journal of Biomolecular Structure …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The deadliest disease caused by the Plasmodium species is malaria. Among other species,
the infection caused by Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is life-threatening. The biological …

Antimalarial drugs inhibiting hemozoin (β-hematin) formation: a mechanistic update

S Kumar, M Guha, V Choubey, P Maity… - Life sciences, 2007 - Elsevier
Digestion of hemoglobin in the food vacuole of the malaria parasite produces very high
quantities of redox active toxic free heme. Hemozoin (β-hematin) formation is a unique …

The role of neutral lipid nanospheres in Plasmodium falciparum haem crystallization

JM Pisciotta, I Coppens, AK Tripathi… - Biochemical …, 2007 - portlandpress.com
The intraerythrocytic malaria parasite constructs an intracellular haem crystal, called
haemozoin, within an acidic digestive vacuole where haemoglobin is degraded. Haem …

“Recycling” classical drugs for malaria

C Teixeira, N Vale, B Perez, A Gomes… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Malaria has been a human health concern ever since the dawn of mankind, but despite the
huge struggles made to date to fight this infection, in 2012 over half a million people were …

Antimalarials inhibit hematin crystallization by unique drug–surface site interactions

KN Olafson, TQ Nguyen, JD Rimer… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
In malaria pathophysiology, divergent hypotheses on the inhibition of hematin crystallization
posit that drugs act either by the sequestration of soluble hematin or their interaction with …

Antimalarial Activity of Potential Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Lactate Dehydrogenase Enzyme Selected by Docking Studies

J Penna-Coutinho, WA Cortopassi, AA Oliveira… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase enzyme (Pf LDH) has been considered
as a potential molecular target for antimalarials due to this parasite's dependence on …

Recent developments in the design and synthesis of hybrid molecules basedon aminoquinoline ring and their antiplasmodial evaluation

VV Kouznetsov, A Gómez-Barrio - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
A short history of hybrid molecules based on aminoquinolines gave interesting and
important information useful for organic and medicinal chemistry, which are deeply involved …

Synthesis and biological evaluation of benzimidazole-5-carbohydrazide derivatives as antimalarial, cytotoxic and antitubercular agents

J Camacho, A Barazarte, N Gamboa… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2011 - Elsevier
A series of N′-substituted-2-(5-nitrofuran or 5-nitrothiophen-2-yl)-3H-benzo [d] imidazole-5-
carbohydrazide derivatives were synthesized and investigated for their abilities to inhibit β …