SynthesisParasitology2013
Novel amidines and analogues as promising agents against intracellular parasites: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Parasitology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
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- Kinetoplast-Directed Therapies: A Selective Mitochondrial Approach to Combat Leishmaniasis.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Photocatalytic generation of amidine carbon radicals for aminodihydroquinoline synthesis.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Alternative Approach to Sequence-Specific Recognition of DNA: Cooperative Stacking of Dication Dimers─Sensitivity to Compound Curvature, Aromatic Structure, and DNA Sequence.ACS chemical biology · 2025Article
- Amidine containing compounds: Antimicrobial activity and its potential in combating antimicrobial resistance.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Synthesis and Biophysical and Biological Studies ofJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2023Article
- Arylimidamides Have Potential for Chemoprophylaxis against Blood-Transmitted Chagas Disease.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Current Landscape of Methods to Evaluate Antimicrobial Activity of Natural Extracts.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A General Strategy to Install Amidine Functional Groups Along the Peptide Backbone.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022Article
- The Medicines for Malaria Venture Malaria Box contains inhibitors of protein secretion in Plasmodium falciparum blood stage parasites.Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) · 2022Article
- Restoring and Enhancing the Potency of Existing Antibiotics against Drug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria through the Development of Potent Small-Molecule Adjuvants.ACS infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Nanotechnological approaches for pentamidine delivery.Drug delivery and translational research · 2022Review
- Thermodynamic Factors That Drive Sequence-Specific DNA Binding of Designed, Synthetic Minor Groove Binding Agents.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- An aromatic imidazoline derived from chloroquinoline triggers cell cycle arrest and inhibits with high selectivity the Trypanosoma cruzi mammalian host-cells infection.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Review on Experimental Treatment Strategies AgainstJournal of experimental pharmacology · 2021Review
- Extending the σ-Hole Motif for Sequence-Specific Recognition of the DNA Minor Groove.Biochemistry · 2020Article
- New Drugs for Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Twenty First Century Success Story.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Review
- SAR Studies and Biological Characterization of a Chromen-4-one Derivative as an Anti-ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2019Article
- The arginine sensing and transport binding sites are distinct in the human pathogen Leishmania.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Parasitic protozoa comprise diverse aetiological agents responsible for important diseases in humans and animals including sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, malaria, toxoplasmosis and others. They are major causes of mortality and morbidity in tropical and subtropical countries, and are also responsible for important economic losses. However, up to now, for most of these parasitic diseases, effective vaccines are lacking and the approved chemotherapeutic compounds present high toxicity, increasing resistance, limited efficacy and require long periods of treatment. Many of these parasitic illnesses predominantly affect low-income populations of developing countries for which new pharmaceutical alternatives are urgently needed. Thus, very low research funding is available. Amidine-containing compounds such as pentamidine are DNA minor groove binders with a broad spectrum of activities against human and veterinary pathogens. Due to their promising microbicidal activity but their rather poor bioavailability and high toxicity, many analogues and derivatives, including pro-drugs, have been synthesized and screened in vitro and in vivo in order to improve their selectivity and pharmacological properties. This review summarizes the knowledge on amidines and analogues with respect to their synthesis, pharmacological profile, mechanistic and biological effects upon a range of intracellular protozoan parasites. The bulk of these data may contribute to the future design and structure optimization of new aromatic dicationic compounds as novel antiparasitic drug candidates.
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