ReviewChemMedChem2021
Malaria Pigment Crystals: The Achilles' Heel of the Malaria Parasite.
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- Plasmodium falciparum African PfCRT Mutant Isoforms Conducive to Piperaquine Resistance Are Infrequent and Impart a Major Fitness Cost.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Distinct Physical Properties of β-Hematin in Two Synthetic Media: Compelling Evidence.ACS omega · 2025Article
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- Cryo-tomography and 3D Electron Diffraction Reveal the Polar Habit and Chiral Structure of the Malaria Pigment Crystal Hemozoin.ACS central science · 2024Article
- The Digestive Vacuole of the Malaria Parasite: A Specialized Lysosome.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Synthesis, Antimalarial, Antileishmanial, and Cytotoxicity Activities and Preliminary In Silico ADMET Studies of 2-(7-Chloroquinolin-4-ylamino)ethyl Benzoate Derivatives.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Synthesis of Benzocycloalkanone-Based Michael Acceptors and Biological Activities as Antimalarial and Antitrypanosomal Agents.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The next generation of malaria treatments: the great expectations.Future science OA · 2023Article
- Mutant PfCRT Can Mediate Piperaquine Resistance in African Plasmodium falciparum With Reduced Fitness and Increased Susceptibility to Other Antimalarials.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Piperaquine-resistant PfCRT mutations differentially impact drug transport, hemoglobin catabolism and parasite physiology in Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages.PLoS pathogens · 2022Article
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Abstract
The biogenic formation of hemozoin crystals, a crucial process in heme detoxification by the malaria parasite, is reviewed as an antimalarial drug target. We first focus on the in-vivo formation of hemozoin. A model is presented, based on native-contrast 3D imaging obtained by X-ray and electron microscopy, that hemozoin nucleates at the inner membrane leaflet of the parasitic digestive vacuole, and grows in the adjacent aqueous medium. Having observed quantities of hemoglobin and hemozoin in the digestive vacuole, we present a model that heme liberation from hemoglobin and hemozoin formation is an assembly-line process. The crystallization is preceded by reaction between heme monomers yielding hematin dimers involving fewer types of isomers than in synthetic hemozoin; this is indicative of protein-induced dimerization. Models of antimalarial drugs binding onto hemozoin surfaces are reviewed. This is followed by a description of bromoquine, a chloroquine drug analogue, capping a significant fraction of hemozoin surfaces within the digestive vacuole and accumulation of the drug, presumably a bromoquine-hematin complex, at the vacuole's membrane.
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