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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Establishing Computational Approaches Towards Identifying Malarial Allosteric Modulators: A Case Study of

Arnold Amusengeri, Lindy Astl, Kevin Lobb, Gennady M Verkhivker, Özlem Tastan Bishop

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Integrated Computational Approaches and Tools forAllosteric Drug Discovery.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arnold AmusengeriResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-4138-5691
Lindy AstlGraduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA.
Kevin LobbResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-3023-0790
Gennady M VerkhivkerGraduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866, USA.
Özlem Tastan BishopResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6861-7849
Rhodes University · ZAChapman University · US

Funding

Grand Challenges Africa GCA/DD/rnd3/023National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa 105267
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combating malaria is almost a never-ending battle, as Plasmodium parasites develop resistance to the drugs used against them, as observed recently in artemisinin-based combination therapies. The main concern now is if the resistant parasite strains spread from Southeast Asia to Africa, the continent hosting most malaria cases. To prevent catastrophic results, we need to find non-conventional approaches. Allosteric drug targeting sites and modulators might be a new hope for malarial treatments. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are potential malarial drug targets and have complex allosteric control mechanisms. Yet, studies on designing allosteric modulators against them are limited. Here, we identified allosteric modulators (SANC190 and SANC651) against

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Allosteric RegulationAntimalarialsComputational BiologyHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsLigandsMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationPhylogenyPlasmodium falciparumProtozoan ProteinsStructural Homology, ProteinThermodynamicsAntimalarialsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsLigandsProtozoan Proteinsallosteric drugsbetweenness centralitydynamic residue networksheat shock proteinsSouth African natural compounds

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PMID31717270
PMCPMC6887781
OpenAlexW2987024115

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