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Zhang M, Wang N, Liu J, Wang C, Xu Y, Ma L. A review on biomass-derived levulinic acid for application in drug synthesis. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2021; 42:220-253. [DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2021.1939261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Mingyue Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, PR China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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Outbreaks of trichinellosis caused by Trichinella papuae have been reported in South-East Asia. Mebendazole and thiabendazole are the treatments of choice for trichinellosis; however, both drugs result in significant side effects and are less effective for muscle-stage larvae (L1). An alternative therapeutic agent is needed to improve treatment. Information on lipid composition and metabolic pathways may bridge gaps in our knowledge and lead to new antiparasitics. The T. papuae L1 lipidome was analysed using a mass spectrometry-based approach, and 403 lipid components were identified. Eight lipid classes were found and glycerophospholipids were dominant, corresponding to 63% of total lipids, of which the glycerolipid DG (20:1[11Z]/22:4[7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z]/0:0) (iso2) was the most abundant. Overall, 57% of T. papuae lipids were absent in humans; therefore, lipid metabolism may be dissimilar in the two species. Proteins involved T. papuae lipid metabolism were explored using bioinformatics. We found that 4-hydroxybutyrate coenzyme A transferase, uncharacterized protein (A0A0V1MCB5) and ML-domain-containing protein are not present in humans. T. papuae glycerophospholipid metabolic and phosphatidylinositol dephosphorylation processes contain several proteins that are dissimilar to those in humans. These findings provide insights into T. papuae lipid composition and metabolism, which may facilitate the development of novel trichinellosis treatments.
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Liu Y, Zhang X, Zhang Z, Liu L, Fan D, Lü X. Coupling of cyclohexene oxide (CHO) and carbon disulfide (CS2) catalyzed by the asymmetric bis-Schiff-base Zn(II) complex. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2015.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Kumar S, Kumari R, Pandey R. New insight-guided approaches to detect, cure, prevent and eliminate malaria. PROTOPLASMA 2015; 252:717-753. [PMID: 25323622 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-014-0697-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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New challenges posed by the development of resistance against artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as well as previous first-line therapies, and the continuing absence of vaccine, have given impetus to research in all areas of malaria control. This review portrays the ongoing progress in several directions of malaria research. The variants of RTS,S and apical membrane antigen 1 (AMA1) are being developed and test adapted as multicomponent and multistage malaria control vaccines, while many other vaccine candidates and methodologies to produce antigens are under experimentation. To track and prevent the spread of artemisinin resistance from Southeast Asia to other parts of the world, rolling circle-enhanced enzyme activity detection (REEAD), a time- and cost-effective malaria diagnosis in field conditions, and a DNA marker associated with artemisinin resistance have become available. Novel mosquito repellents and mosquito trapping and killing techniques much more effective than the prevalent ones are undergoing field testing. Mosquito lines stably infected with their symbiotic wild-type or genetically engineered bacteria that kill sympatric malaria parasites are being constructed and field tested for stopping malaria transmission. A complementary approach being pursued is the addition of ivermectin-like drug molecules to ACTs to cure malaria and kill mosquitoes. Experiments are in progress to eradicate malaria mosquito by making it genetically male sterile. High-throughput screening procedures are being developed and used to discover molecules that possess long in vivo half life and are active against liver and blood stages for the fast cure of malaria symptoms caused by simple or relapsing and drug-sensitive and drug-resistant types of varied malaria parasites, can stop gametocytogenesis and sporogony and could be given in one dose. Target-based antimalarial drug designing has begun. Some of the putative next-generation antimalarials that possess in their scaffold structure several of the desired properties of malaria cure and control are exemplified by OZ439, NITD609, ELQ300 and tafenoquine that are already undergoing clinical trials, and decoquinate, usnic acid, torin-2, ferroquine, WEHI-916, MMV396749 and benzothiophene-type N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) inhibitors, which are candidates for future clinical usage. Among these, NITD609, ELQ300, decoquinate, usnic acid, torin-2 and NMT inhibitors not only cure simple malaria and are prophylactic against simple malaria, but they also cure relapsing malaria.
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- Sushil Kumar
- SKA Institution for Research, Education and Development (SKAIRED), 4/11 SarvPriya Vihar, New Delhi, 110016, India,
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Garg A, Lukk T, Kumar V, Choi JY, Augagneur Y, Voelker DR, Nair S, Ben Mamoun C. Structure, function and inhibition of the phosphoethanolamine methyltransferases of the human malaria parasites Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi. Sci Rep 2015; 5:9064. [PMID: 25761669 PMCID: PMC4357015 DOI: 10.1038/srep09064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Phosphoethanolamine methyltransferases (PMTs) catalyze the three-step methylation of phosphoethanolamine to form phosphocholine, a critical step in the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine in a select number of eukaryotes including human malaria parasites, nematodes and plants. Genetic studies in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have shown that the methyltransferase PfPMT plays a critical function in parasite development and differentiation. The presence of PMT orthologs in other malaria parasites that infect humans and their absence in mammals make them ideal targets for the development of selective antimalarials with broad specificity against different Plasmodium species. Here we describe the X-ray structures and biochemical properties of PMT orthologs from Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium knowlesi and show that both enzymes are inhibited by amodiaquine and NSC158011, two drugs with potent antimalarial activity. Metabolic studies in a yeast mutant that relies on PkPMT or PvPMT for survival demonstrated that these compounds inhibit phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis from ethanolamine. Our structural and functional data provide insights into the mechanism of catalysis and inhibition of PMT enzymes and set the stage for a better design of more specific and selective antimalarial drugs.
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- Aprajita Garg
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, 06520 USA
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- 1] Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [2] Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, 06520 USA
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- Basic Science Section, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado 80206
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, 06520 USA
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- Basic Science Section, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado 80206
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, 06520 USA
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- David S Barnett
- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
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- Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Memphis, Tennessee 38105, United States
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Biamonte MA, Wanner J, Le Roch KG. Recent advances in malaria drug discovery. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2013; 23:2829-43. [PMID: 23587422 PMCID: PMC3762334 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.03.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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This digest covers some of the most relevant progress in malaria drug discovery published between 2010 and 2012. There is an urgent need to develop new antimalarial drugs. Such drugs can target the blood stage of the disease to alleviate the symptoms, the liver stage to prevent relapses, and the transmission stage to protect other humans. The pipeline for the blood stage is becoming robust, but this should not be a source of complacency, as the current therapies set a high standard. Drug discovery efforts directed towards the liver and transmission stages are in their infancy but are receiving increasing attention as targeting these stages could be instrumental in eradicating malaria.
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- Marco A Biamonte
- Drug Discovery for Tropical Diseases, Suite 230, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.
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Caldarelli SA, El Fangour S, Wein S, Tran van Ba C, Périgaud C, Pellet A, Vial HJ, Peyrottes S. New bis-thiazolium analogues as potential antimalarial agents: design, synthesis, and biological evaluation. J Med Chem 2013; 56:496-509. [PMID: 23289711 DOI: 10.1021/jm3014585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bis-thiazolium salts are able to inhibit phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in Plasmodium and to block parasite proliferation in the low nanomolar range. However, due to their physicochemical properties (i.e., permanent cationic charges, the flexibility, and lipophilic character of the alkyl chain), the oral bioavailability of these compounds is low. New series of bis-thiazolium-based drugs have been designed to overcome this drawback. They feature linker rigidification via the introduction of aromatic rings and/or a decrease in the overall lipophilicity through the introduction of heteroatoms. On the basis of the structure-activity relationships, a few of the promising compounds (9, 10, and 11) were found to exhibit potent antimalarial in vitro and in vivo activities (EC(50) < 10 nM and ED(50) ip < 0.7 mg/kg).
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- Sergio A Caldarelli
- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Caldarelli SA, Hamel M, Duckert JF, Ouattara M, Calas M, Maynadier M, Wein S, Périgaud C, Pellet A, Vial HJ, Peyrottes S. Disulfide Prodrugs of Albitiazolium (T3/SAR97276): Synthesis and Biological Activities. J Med Chem 2012; 55:4619-28. [DOI: 10.1021/jm3000328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Sergio A. Caldarelli
- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Dynamique des Interactions
Membranaires
Normales et Pathologiques (DIMNP), UMR 5235 CNRS-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 107, place E. Bataillon,
34095 Montpellier, France
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- Dynamique des Interactions
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Normales et Pathologiques (DIMNP), UMR 5235 CNRS-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 107, place E. Bataillon,
34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Sanofi Research & Development, 195 route d’Espagne, BP 13669, 31036 Toulouse, France
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- Dynamique des Interactions
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Normales et Pathologiques (DIMNP), UMR 5235 CNRS-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 107, place E. Bataillon,
34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1&2, Université Montpellier 2, cc 1705, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Peyrottes S, Caldarelli S, Wein S, Périgaud C, Pellet A, Vial H. Choline analogues in malaria chemotherapy. Curr Pharm Des 2012; 18:3454-66. [PMID: 22607139 PMCID: PMC3480700 DOI: 10.2174/138161212801327338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Emerging resistance against well-established anti-malaria drugs warrants the introduction of new therapeutic agents with original mechanisms of action. Inhibition of membrane-based phospholipid biosynthesis, which is crucial for the parasite, has thus been proposed as a novel and promising therapeutic strategy. This review compiles literature concerning the design and study of choline analogues and related cation derivatives as potential anti-malarials. It covers advances achieved over the last two decades and describes: the concept validation, the design and selection of a clinical candidate (Albitiazolium), back-up derivatives while also providing insight into the development of prodrug approaches.
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- Suzanne Peyrottes
- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Dynamique des Intéractions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques (DIMNP), UMR 5235 CNRS-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), UMR 5247 CNRS-UM1-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- Sanofi-Aventis, Research & Development, 195 route d’Espagne, BP 13669, 31036 Toulouse Cedex 1, France
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- Dynamique des Intéractions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques (DIMNP), UMR 5235 CNRS-UM2, Université Montpellier 2, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Tischer M, Pradel G, Ohlsen K, Holzgrabe U. Quaternary ammonium salts and their antimicrobial potential: targets or nonspecific interactions? ChemMedChem 2011; 7:22-31. [PMID: 22113995 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201100404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2011] [Revised: 10/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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For more than 50 years dequalinium chloride has been used successfully as an antiseptic drug and disinfectant, particularly for clinical purposes. Given the success of dequalinium chloride, several series of mono- and bisquaternary ammonium compounds have been designed and reported to have improved antimicrobial activity. Furthermore, many of them exhibit high activity against mycobacteria and protozoa, especially against plasmodia. This review discusses the structure-activity relationships and the modes of action of the various series of (bis)quaternary ammonium compounds.
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- Maximilian Tischer
- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Membrane lipidomics for the discovery of new antiparasitic drug targets. Trends Parasitol 2011; 27:496-504. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2011] [Revised: 07/21/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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