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Chen J, Fang Y, Liu H, Chen N, Chen S, Xue J. Quinolin-8-yloxy-substituted zinc(II) phthalocyanines for enhanced in vitro photodynamic therapy. J PORPHYR PHTHALOCYA 2018. [DOI: 10.1142/s1088424618500669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an innovative and promising modality to treat various tumors. In this study, two novel zinc(II) phthalocyanines substituted with quinolin-8-yloxy groups at the [Formula: see text]-position, namely mono(quinolin-8-yloxy) zinc(II) phthalocyanine (ZnPc-Q1) and tetra(quinolin-8-yloxy) zinc(II) phthalocyanine (ZnPc-Q4), have been synthesized and fully characterized. With quinolin-8-yloxy, these two phthalocyanines exhibit less self-aggregation in DMF and culture medium, high singlet oxygen quantum yields, mitochondria localization and high photodynamic activities (IC[Formula: see text] values as low as 2 nM). Compared to ZnPc-Q4, ZnPc-Q1 exhibits higher cellular uptake and lower IC[Formula: see text] values. Benefitting from its higher anticancer efficacy and lack of isomers, ZnPc-Q1 is a highly promising anticancer agent in clinical application.
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- Juanjuan Chen
- National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, and Fujian Engineering Research Center for Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnoses, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
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- National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, and Fujian Engineering Research Center for Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnoses, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
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- National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, and Fujian Engineering Research Center for Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnoses, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
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- National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, and Fujian Engineering Research Center for Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnoses, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
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- Dermatological Department, Fuzhou General Hospital, PLA. Fuzhou, Fujian 350025, China
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- National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, and Fujian Engineering Research Center for Photodynamic Therapy and Diagnoses, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350116, China
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Murce E, Cuya-Guizado TR, Padilla-Chavarria HI, França TCC, Pimentel AS. Structure-based de novo design, molecular docking and molecular dynamics of primaquine analogues acting as quinone reductase II inhibitors. J Mol Graph Model 2015; 62:235-244. [PMID: 26521207 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2015.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Revised: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Primaquine is a traditional antimalarial drug with low parasitic resistance and generally good acceptance at higher doses, which has been used for over 60 years in malaria treatment. However, several limitations related to its hematotoxicity have been reported. It is believed that this toxicity comes from the hydroxylation of the C-5 and C-6 positions of its 8-aminoquinoline ring before binding to the molecular target: the quinone reductase II (NQO2) human protein. In this study we propose primaquine derivatives, with substitution at position C-6 of the 8-aminoquinoline ring, planned to have better binding to NQO2, compared to primaquine, but with a reduced toxicity related to the C-5 position being possible to be oxidized. On this sense the proposed analogues were suggested in order to reduce or inhibit hydroxylation and further oxidation to hemotoxic metabolites. Five C-6 substituted primaquine analogues were selected by de novo design and further submitted to docking and molecular dynamics simulations. Our results suggest that all analogues bind better to NQO2 than primaquine and may become better antimalarials. However, the analogues 3 and 4 are predicted to have a better activity/toxicity balance.
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- Erika Murce
- Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Modeling Applied to the Chemical and Biological Defense (LMCBD), Military Institute of Engineering, 22290-270 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Modeling Applied to the Chemical and Biological Defense (LMCBD), Military Institute of Engineering, 22290-270 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Center for Basic and Applied Research, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
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- Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22453-900, Brazil.
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Jia X, Yang FF, Li J, Liu JY, Xue JP. Synthesis and in Vitro Photodynamic Activity of Oligomeric Ethylene Glycol–Quinoline Substituted Zinc(II) Phthalocyanine Derivatives. J Med Chem 2013; 56:5797-805. [DOI: 10.1021/jm400722d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Xiao Jia
- Fujian Engineering Research Center for Drug and Diagnoses,
Treat of Photodynamic Therapy, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Engineering Research Center for Drug and Diagnoses,
Treat of Photodynamic Therapy, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Engineering Research Center for Drug and Diagnoses,
Treat of Photodynamic Therapy, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Engineering Research Center for Drug and Diagnoses,
Treat of Photodynamic Therapy, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Engineering Research Center for Drug and Diagnoses,
Treat of Photodynamic Therapy, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
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Staderini M, Cabezas N, Bolognesi ML, Menéndez JC. Solvent- and chromatography-free amination of π-deficient nitrogen heterocycles under microwave irradiation. A fast, efficient and green route to 9-aminoacridines, 4-aminoquinolines and 4-aminoquinazolines and its application to the synthesis of the drugs amsacrine and bistacrine. Tetrahedron 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2012.11.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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González Cabrera D, Douelle F, Feng TS, Nchinda AT, Younis Y, White KL, Wu Q, Ryan E, Burrows JN, Waterson D, Witty MJ, Wittlin S, Charman SA, Chibale K. Novel orally active antimalarial thiazoles. J Med Chem 2011; 54:7713-9. [PMID: 21966980 DOI: 10.1021/jm201108k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An aminomethylthiazole pyrazole carboxamide lead 3 with good in vitro antiplasmodial activity [IC(50): 0.08 μM (K1, chloroquine and multidrug resistant strain) and 0.07 μM (NF54, chloroquine sensitive strain)] and microsomal metabolic stability was identified from whole cell screening of a SoftFocus kinase library. Compound 3 also exhibited in vivo activity in the P. berghei mouse model at 4 × 50 mg/kg administration via the oral route, showing 99.5% activity and 9 days survival and showed low in vitro cytotoxicity. Pharmacokinetic studies in rats revealed good oral bioavailability (51% at 22 mg/kg) with a moderate rate of absorption, reasonable half-life (t(1/2) 3 h), and high volume of distribution with moderately high plasma and blood clearance after IV administration. Toward toxicity profiling, 3 exhibited moderate potential to inhibit CYP1A2 (IC(50) = 1.5 μM) and 2D6 (IC(50) = 0.4 μM) as well as having a potential hERG liability (IC(50) = 3.7 μM).
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Ndakala AJ, Gessner RK, Gitari PW, October N, White KL, Hudson A, Fakorede F, Shackleford DM, Kaiser M, Yeates C, Charman SA, Chibale K. Antimalarial pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles. J Med Chem 2011; 54:4581-9. [PMID: 21644541 DOI: 10.1021/jm200227r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A novel class of antimalarial pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles were synthesized and evaluated for antiplasmodial activity and cytotoxicity following hits identified from screening commercially available compound collections. The most active of these, TDR86919 (4c), showed improved in vitro activity vs the drug-resistant K1 strain of Plasmodium falciparum relative to chloroquine (IC(50) = 0.047 μM v 0.17 μM); potency was retained against a range of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains, with negligible cytotoxicity against the mammalian (L-6) cell line (selectivity index of >600). 4c and several close analogues (as HCl or mesylate salts) showed significant efficacy in P. berghei infected mice following both intraperitoneal (ip) and oral (po) administration, with >90% inhibition of parasitemia, accompanied by an increase in the mean survival time (MSD). The pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles appeared to be relatively slow acting in vivo compared to chloroquine, and metabolic stability of the alkylamino side chain was identified as a key issue in influencing in vivo activity.
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- Albert J Ndakala
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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Geographic patterns of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance distinguished by differential responses to amodiaquine and chloroquine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:18883-9. [PMID: 19884511 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911317106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chloroquine (CQ) resistance (CQR) in Plasmodium falciparum originated from at least six foci in South America, Asia, and Oceania. Malaria parasites from these locations exhibit contrasting resistance phenotypes that are distinguished by point mutations and microsatellite polymorphisms in and near the CQR transporter gene, pfcrt, and the multidrug resistance transporter gene, pfmdr1. Amodiaquine (AQ), a 4-aminoquinoline related to CQ, is recommended and often used successfully against CQ-resistant P. falciparum in Africa, but it is largely ineffective across large regions of South America. The relationship of different pfcrt and pfmdr1 combinations to these drug-resistant phenotypes has been unclear. In two P. falciparum genetic crosses, particular pfcrt and pfmdr1 alleles from South America interact to yield greater levels of resistance to monodesethylamodiaquine (MDAQ; the active metabolite of AQ) than to CQ, whereas a pfcrt allele from Southeast Asia and Africa is linked to greater CQ than MDAQ resistance with all partner pfmdr1 alleles. These results, together with (i) available haplotype data from other parasites; (ii) evidence for an emerging focus of AQ resistance in Tanzania; and (iii) the persistence of 4-aminoquinoline-resistant parasites in South America, where CQ and AQ use is largely discontinued, suggest that different histories of drug use on the two continents have driven the selection of distinct suites of pfcrt and pfmdr1 mutations. Increasing use of AQ in Africa poses the threat of a selective sweep of highly AQ-resistant, CQ-resistant parasites with pfcrt and pfmdr1 mutations that are as advantaged and persistent as in South America.
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Janz K, Kaila N. Bromodecarboxylation of Quinoline Salicylic Acids: Increasing the Diversity of Accessible Substituted Quinolines. J Org Chem 2009; 74:8874-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jo9018232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kristin Janz
- Wyeth Research, Department of Chemical Sciences, 200 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
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- Wyeth Research, Department of Chemical Sciences, 200 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
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Kalita D, Sarma R, Baruah JB. Catalytic alcoholysis of quinolin-8-yl esters by manganese complexes. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2009.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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van Schalkwyk DA, Egan TJ. Quinoline-resistance reversing agents for the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Drug Resist Updat 2006; 9:211-26. [PMID: 17064951 DOI: 10.1016/j.drup.2006.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Resistance to quinoline antimalarials, especially to chloroquine and mefloquine has had a major impact on the treatment of malaria worldwide. In the period since 2000, significant progress has been made in understanding the origins of chloroquine resistance and to a lesser extent mefloquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Chloroquine resistance correlates directly with mutations in the pfcrt gene of the parasite, while changes in another gene, pfmdr1, may also be related to chloroquine resistance in some strains. Mutations in pfcrt do not appear to correlate with mefloquine resistance, but some studies have implicated pfmdr1 in mefloquine resistance. Its involvement however, has not been definitively demonstrated. The protein products of these genes, PfCRT and Pgh-1 are both located in the food vacuole membrane of the parasite. Current evidence suggests that PfCRT is probably a transporter protein. Chloroquine appears to exit the food vacuole via this transporter in resistant PfCRT mutants. Pgh-1 on the other hand, resembles mammalian multi-drug resistance proteins and appears to be involved in expelling hydrophobic drugs from the food vacuole. Resistance reversing agents are believed to act by inhibiting these proteins. The currently known chloroquine- and mefloquine-resistance reversing agents are discussed in this review. This includes a discussion of structure-activity relationships in these compounds and hypotheses on their possible mechanisms of action. The status of current clinical applications is also briefly discussed.
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- Donelly A van Schalkwyk
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
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Naudé B, Brzostowski JA, Kimmel AR, Wellems TE. Dictyostelium discoideum expresses a malaria chloroquine resistance mechanism upon transfection with mutant, but not wild-type, Plasmodium falciparum transporter PfCRT. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:25596-603. [PMID: 15883156 PMCID: PMC1779819 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m503227200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria results from mutations in PfCRT, a member of a unique family of transporters present in apicomplexan parasites and Dictyostelium discoideum. Mechanisms that have been proposed to explain chloroquine resistance are difficult to evaluate within malaria parasites. Here we report on the targeted expression of wild-type and mutant forms of PfCRT to acidic vesicles in D. discoideum. We show that wild-type PfCRT has minimal effect on the accumulation of chloroquine by D. discoideum, whereas forms of PfCRT carrying a key charge-loss mutation of lysine 76 (e.g. K76T) enable D. discoideum to expel chloroquine. As in P. falciparum, the chloroquine resistance phenotype conferred on transformed D. discoideum can be reversed by the channel-blocking agent verapamil. Although intravesicular pH levels in D. discoideum show small acidic changes with the expression of different forms of PfCRT, these changes would tend to promote intravesicular trapping of chloroquine (a weak base) and do not account for reduced drug accumulation in transformed D. discoideum. Our results instead support outward-directed chloroquine efflux for the mechanism of chloroquine resistance by mutant PfCRT. This mechanism shows structural specificity as D. discoideum transformants that expel chloroquine do not expel piperaquine, a bisquinoline analog of chloroquine used frequently against chloroquine-resistant parasites in Southeast Asia. PfCRT, nevertheless, may have some ability to act on quinine and quinidine. Transformed D. discoideum will be useful for further studies of the chloroquine resistance mechanism and may assist in the development and evaluation of new antimalarial drugs.
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- Bronwen Naudé
- Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-8132, USA
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Ncokazi KK, Egan TJ. A colorimetric high-throughput β-hematin inhibition screening assay for use in the search for antimalarial compounds. Anal Biochem 2005; 338:306-19. [PMID: 15745752 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine are believed to act by inhibiting hemozoin formation in the food vacuole of the malaria parasite. We have developed a new assay for measuring and detecting inhibition of synthetic hemozoin (beta-hematin) formation. Aqueous pyridine (5% v/v, pH 7.5) forms a low-spin complex with hematin but not with beta-hematin. Its absorbance obeys Beer's law, making it useful for quantitating hematin concentration in hematin/beta-hematin mixtures, allowing compounds to be investigated for inhibition of beta-hematin formation. The assay is rapid (60 min incubation) and requires no centrifugation. The beta-hematin inhibition data show good agreement with alternative assay methods reported by four laboratories. The assay was adapted for high-throughput colorimetric screening, allowing visual identification of beta-hematin inhibitors. In this mode, the assay successfully detected all 18 beta-hematin inhibitors in a set of 47 compounds tested, with no false positive results. The quantitative in vitro antimalarial activities of a set of 13 aminoquinolines and quinoline methanols were found to correlate significantly with beta-hematin inhibition values determined using the assay.
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- Kanyile K Ncokazi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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Posner GH. Antimalarial peroxides in the qinghaosu (artemisinin) and yingzhaosu families. Expert Opin Ther Pat 2005. [DOI: 10.1517/13543776.8.11.1487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Continued and sustainable improvements in antimalarial medicines through focused research and development are essential for the world's future ability to treat and control malaria. Unfortunately, malaria is a disease of poverty, and despite a wealth of scientific knowledge there is insufficient market incentive to generate the competitive, business-driven industrial antimalarial drug research and development that is normally needed to deliver new products. Mechanisms of partnering with industry have been established to overcome this obstacle and to open up and build on scientific opportunities for improved chemotherapy in the future.
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Kurosawa Y, Dorn A, Kitsuji-Shirane M, Shimada H, Satoh T, Matile H, Hofheinz W, Masciadri R, Kansy M, Ridley RG. Hematin polymerization assay as a high-throughput screen for identification of new antimalarial pharmacophores. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2000; 44:2638-44. [PMID: 10991837 PMCID: PMC90128 DOI: 10.1128/aac.44.10.2638-2644.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hematin polymerization is a parasite-specific process that enables the detoxification of heme following its release in the lysosomal digestive vacuole during hemoglobin degradation, and represents both an essential and a unique pharmacological drug target. We have developed a high-throughput in vitro microassay of hematin polymerization based on the detection of (14)C-labeled hematin incorporated into polymeric hemozoin (malaria pigment). The assay uses 96-well filtration microplates and requires 12 h and a Wallac 1450 MicroBeta liquid scintillation counter. The robustness of the assay allowed the rapid screening and evaluation of more than 100, 000 compounds. Random screening was complemented by the development of a pharmacophore hypothesis using the "Catalyst" program and a large amount of data available on the inhibitory activity of a large library of 4-aminoquinolines. Using these methods, we identified "hit" compounds belonging to several chemical structural classes that had potential antimalarial activity. Follow-up evaluation of the antimalarial activity of these compounds in culture and in the Plasmodium berghei murine model further identified compounds with actual antimalarial activity. Of particular interest was a triarylcarbinol (Ro 06-9075) and a related benzophenone (Ro 22-8014) that showed oral activity in the murine model. These compounds are chemically accessible and could form the basis of a new antimalarial medicinal chemistry program.
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- Y Kurosawa
- Department of Pharmaceutical Screening, Nippon Roche Research Center, 200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture 247, Japan
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Stensrud G, Sande SA, Kristensen S, Smistad G. Formulation and characterisation of primaquine loaded liposomes prepared by a pH gradient using experimental design. Int J Pharm 2000; 198:213-28. [PMID: 10767570 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-5173(00)00338-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The effect of different formulation factors (lipid type, cholesterol, charge, internal buffer capacity, drug-to-lipid incubation ratio) on the encapsulation efficiency and size of primaquine liposomes (SUV's) in response to a pH gradient was investigated by a fractional factorial screen ing design. Three of the factors (charge, internal buffer capacity, drug -to-lipid incubation ratio) were further studied in a Box--Behnken optimisation design. The lipid type was the most important parameter followed by the drug-to-lipid incubation ratio, buffer capacity, cholesterol and charge. Several of the interactions wer e important. In the optimisation design a robust region with high encapsulation efficiency (>95%) was obtained for DSPC: 33.33 mol% cholesterol-liposomes at high internal citrate concentration (200 mM) by maintaining the drug-to-lipid incubation ratio below 0.15:1 (mol:mol) and varying the charge incorporation between 2 and 10%. In order to achieve long-term stability and sterility, the liposomes were lyophilised followed by gamma irradiation. The pH gradient was maintained during this treatment with little chemical degradation of the substances. The final preparation consisted of three separate vials with lyophilised liposomes, solid state primaquine and hydration medium.
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- G Stensrud
- Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, PO Box 1068, Blindern, N-0316, Oslo, Norway.
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Biot C, Delhaes L, N'Diaye CM, Maciejewski LA, Camus D, Dive D, Brocard JS. Synthesis and antimalarial activity in vitro of potential metabolites of ferrochloroquine and related compounds. Bioorg Med Chem 1999; 7:2843-7. [PMID: 10658588 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(99)00224-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In man, the two major metabolites of the antimalarial drug chloroquine (CQ) are monodesethylchloroquine (DECQ) and didesethylchloroquine (di-DECQ). By analogy with CQ, the synthesis and the in vitro tests of some amino derivatives of ferrochloroquine (FQ), a ferrocenic analogue of CQ which are presumed to be the oxidative metabolites of FQ, are reported. Desmethylferrochloroquine 1a and didesmethylferrochloroquine 2 would be more potent against schizontocides than CQ in vitro against two strains (HB3 and Dd2) of Plasmodium falciparum. Other secondary amino derivatives have been prepared and proved to be active as antimalarial agents in vitro, too.
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- C Biot
- Laboratoire de Catalyse, Groupe de Synthèse Organométallique, UPRESA 8010, ENSCL, Université des Sciences et Technologies, Villeneuve D'Ascq, France.
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Vippagunta SR, Dorn A, Matile H, Bhattacharjee AK, Karle JM, Ellis WY, Ridley RG, Vennerstrom JL. Structural specificity of chloroquine-hematin binding related to inhibition of hematin polymerization and parasite growth. J Med Chem 1999; 42:4630-9. [PMID: 10579825 DOI: 10.1021/jm9902180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Considerable data now support the hypothesis that chloroquine (CQ)-hematin binding in the parasite food vacuole leads to inhibition of hematin polymerization and parasite death by hematin poisoning. To better understand the structural specificity of CQ-hematin binding, 13 CQ analogues were chosen and their hematin binding affinity, inhibition of hematin polymerization, and inhibition of parasite growth were measured. As determined by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), the stoichiometry data and exothermic binding enthalpies indicated that, like CQ, these analogues bind to two or more hematin mu-oxo dimers in a cofacial pi-pi sandwich-type complex. Association constants (K(a)'s) ranged from 0.46 to 2.9 x 10(5) M(-1) compared to 4.0 x 10(5) M(-1) for CQ. Remarkably, we were not able to measure any significant interaction between hematin mu-oxo dimer and 11, the 6-chloro analogue of CQ. This result indicates that the 7-chloro substituent in CQ is a critical structural determinant in its binding affinity to hematin mu-oxo dimer. Molecular modeling experiments reinforce the view that the enthalpically favorable pi-pi interaction observed in the CQ-hematin mu-oxo dimer complex derives from a favorable alignment of the out-of-plane pi-electron density in CQ and hematin mu-oxo dimer at the points of intermolecular contact. For 4-aminoquinolines related to CQ, our data suggest that electron-withdrawing functional groups at the 7-position of the quinoline ring are required for activity against both hematin polymerization and parasite growth and that chlorine substitution at position 7 is optimal. Our results also confirm that the CQ diaminoalkyl side chain, especially the aliphatic tertiary nitrogen atom, is an important structural determinant in CQ drug resistance. For CQ analogues 1-13, the lack of correlation between K(a) and hematin polymerization IC(50) values suggests that other properties of the CQ-hematin mu-oxo dimer complex, rather than its association constant alone, play a role in the inhibition of hematin polymerization. However, there was a modest correlation between inhibition of hematin polymerization and inhibition of parasite growth when hematin polymerization IC(50) values were normalized for hematin mu-oxo dimer binding affinities, adding further evidence that antimalarial 4-aminoquinolines act by this mechanism.
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- S R Vippagunta
- College of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 986025 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6025, USA
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Biot C, Delhaes L, Abessolo H, Domarle O, Maciejewski L, Mortuaire M, Delcourt P, Deloron P, Camus D, Dive D, Brocard J. Novel metallocenic compounds as antimalarial agents. Study of the position of ferrocene in chloroquine. J Organomet Chem 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-328x(99)00302-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The malaria parasite's development of resistance to the drug chloroquine is a major threat to world health. A protein likely to be involved in chloroquine resistance has recently been identified; this discovery is important, but raises as many questions as it answers.
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Affiliation(s)
- R G Ridley
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland.
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