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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

G-Quadruplex DNA Motifs in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum and Their Potential as Novel Antimalarial Drug Targets.

Lynne M Harris, Katelyn R Monsell, Florian Noulin, M Toyin Famodimu, Nicolas Smargiasso, Christian Damblon, Paul Horrocks, Catherine J Merrick

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. N8-Modified Quino[4,3,2-Kl]acridines as Promising Antimalarial G-Quadruplex Ligands.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  15. G-Quadruplexes as Key Transcriptional Regulators in Neglected Trypanosomatid Parasites.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lynne M Harris *Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Katelyn R Monsell *Centre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Florian NoulinCentre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
M Toyin FamodimuCentre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Nicolas SmargiassoMolecular Systems Research Unit, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
Christian DamblonMolecular Systems Research Unit, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
Paul HorrocksCentre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.
Catherine J MerrickCentre for Applied Entomology and Parasitology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom c.merrick@keele.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-7583-2176
Keele University · GBUniversity of Liège · BE

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K000535/1Medical Research Council MR/L008823/1Medical Research Council MR/P010873/1Medical Research Council MR/P010873/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G-quadruplexes are DNA or RNA secondary structures that can be formed from guanine-rich nucleic acids. These four-stranded structures, composed of stacked quartets of guanine bases, can be highly stable and have been demonstrated to occur

Indexed as

AntimalarialsG-QuadruplexesHumansMalaria, FalciparumPlasmodium falciparumAntimalarialsG-quadruplexmalariaPlasmodium falciparumquarfloxin

Identifiers

PMID29311059
PMCPMC5826154
OpenAlexW2783004715

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