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ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2018

Plasmodial Kinase Inhibitors: License to Cure?

Diego González Cabrera, André Horatscheck, Colin R Wilson, Greg Basarab, Charles J Eyermann, Kelly Chibale

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Article in Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diego González Cabrera
André Horatscheck
Colin R Wilson
Greg Basarab
Charles J Eyermann
University of Cape Town · ZASouth African Medical Research Council · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in the genetics, function, and stage-specificity of Plasmodium kinases has driven robust efforts to identify targets for the design of antimalarial therapies. Reverse genomics following phenotypic screening against Plasmodia or related parasites has uncovered vulnerable kinase targets including PI4K, PKG, and GSK-3, an approach bolstered by access to human disease-directed kinase libraries. Alternatively, screening compound libraries against Plasmodium kinases has successfully led to inhibitors with antiplasmodial activity. As with other therapeutic areas, optimizing compound ADMET and PK properties in parallel with target inhibitory potency and whole cell activity becomes paramount toward advancing compounds as clinical candidates. These and other considerations will be discussed in the context of progress achieved toward deriving important, novel mode-of-action kinase-inhibiting antimalarial medicines.

Indexed as

AntimalarialsHumansMalariaPlasmodiumProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein KinasesAntimalarialsProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtein Kinases

Identifiers

PMID29771541
PMCPMC6166223
OpenAlexW2804912936

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