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ArticleMalaria journal2017

Primaquine-thiazolidinones block malaria transmission and development of the liver exoerythrocytic forms.

Anna Caroline C Aguiar, Flávio Jr B Figueiredo, Patrícia D Neuenfeldt, Tony H Katsuragawa, Bruna B Drawanz, Wilson Cunico, Photini Sinnis, Fidel Zavala, Antoniana U Krettli

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Article in Malaria journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Primaquine derivatives: Modifications of the terminal amino group.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anna Caroline C AguiarCentro de Pesquisas René Rachou-Fiocruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30190-002, Brazil.
Flávio Jr B FigueiredoCentro de Pesquisas René Rachou-Fiocruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30190-002, Brazil.
Patrícia D NeuenfeldtLaboratório de Química Aplicada à Bioativos, Centro de Ciências Químicas, Farmacêuticas e de Alimentos, UFPel, Campus Universitário s/no, Pelotas, RS, 98001-970, Brazil.
Tony H KatsuragawaLaboratório de Epidemiologia, Fundação Osvaldo Cruz-Fiocruz Rondônia, Bairro Lagoa, Porto Velho, RO, Brazil.
Bruna B DrawanzLaboratório de Química Aplicada à Bioativos, Centro de Ciências Químicas, Farmacêuticas e de Alimentos, UFPel, Campus Universitário s/no, Pelotas, RS, 98001-970, Brazil.
Wilson CunicoLaboratório de Química Aplicada à Bioativos, Centro de Ciências Químicas, Farmacêuticas e de Alimentos, UFPel, Campus Universitário s/no, Pelotas, RS, 98001-970, Brazil.
Photini SinnisDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
Fidel ZavalaDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
Antoniana U KrettliCentro de Pesquisas René Rachou-Fiocruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30190-002, Brazil. akrettli@cpqrr.fiocruz.br.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz · BRInstituto de Ciências Farmacêuticas · BRJohns Hopkins University · USUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BR

Funding

Structure and Function of the Circumsporozoite ProteinR01AI056840 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI SINNIS, PHOTINI · 2005 to 2014
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI056840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPrimaquine is an anti-malarial used to prevent Plasmodium vivax relapses and malaria transmission. However, PQ metabolites cause haemolysis in patients deficient in the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). Fifteen PQ-thiazolidinone derivatives, synthesized through one-post reactions from primaquine, arenealdehydes and mercaptoacetic acid, were evaluated in parallel in several biological assays, including ability to block malaria transmission to mosquitoes.

resultsAll primaquine derivatives (PQ-TZs) exhibited lower cell toxicity than primaquine; none caused haemolysis to normal or G6PD-deficient human erythrocytes in vitro. Sera from mice pretreated with the test compounds thus assumed to have drug metabolites, caused no in vitro haemolysis of human erythrocytes, whereas sera from mice pretreated with primaquine did cause haemolysis. The ability of the PQ-TZs to block malaria transmission was evaluated based on the oocyst production and percentage of mosquitoes infected after a blood meal in drug pre-treated animals with experimental malaria caused by either Plasmodium gallinaceum or Plasmodium berghei; four and five PQ-TZs significantly inhibited sporogony in avian and in rodent malaria, respectively. Selected PQ-TZs were tested for their inhibitory activity on P. berghei liver stage development, in mice and in vitro, one compound (4m) caused a 3-day delay in the malaria pre-patent period.

conclusionsThe compound 4m was the most promising, blocking malaria transmissions and reducing the number of exoerythrocytic forms of P. berghei (EEFs) in hepatoma cells in vitro and in mice in vivo. The same compound also caused a 3-day delay in the malaria pre-patent period.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell Line, TumorChickensChlorocebus aethiopsErythrocytesGlucosephosphate DehydrogenaseHemolysisHep G2 CellsHumansMalariaMalaria, AvianMicePlasmodium bergheiPlasmodium gallinaceumPrimaquineGlucosephosphate DehydrogenasePrimaquineBlocking malaria transmissionExoerythrocytic stages, sporozoitesMalariaPlasmodium bergheiPlasmodium gallinaceumSporogonyThiazolidinones

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PMID28279180
PMCPMC5345155
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