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ArticleScientific reports2023

Identifying inhibitors of β-haematin formation with activity against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites via virtual screening approaches.

Leah Amod, Roxanne Mohunlal, Nicole Teixeira, Timothy J Egan, Kathryn J Wicht

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5 authors.

Leah AmodDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Roxanne MohunlalDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Nicole TeixeiraDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Timothy J EganDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
Kathryn J WichtDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa. kathryn.wicht@uct.ac.za.

Funding

New tools for antimalarial target identificationR01AI143521 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI WICHT, KATHRYN JEAN · 2019 to 2023
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NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143521
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The biomineral haemozoin, or its synthetic analogue β-haematin (βH), has been the focus of several target-based screens for activity against Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Together with the known βH crystal structure, the availability of this screening data makes the target amenable to both structure-based and ligand-based virtual screening. In this study, molecular docking and machine learning techniques, including Bayesian and support vector machine classifiers, were used in sequence to screen the in silico ChemDiv 300k Representative Compounds library for inhibitors of βH with retained activity against P. falciparum. We commercially obtained and tested a prioritised set of inhibitors and identified the coumarin and iminodipyridinopyrimidine chemotypes as potent in vitro inhibitors of βH and whole cell parasite growth.

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AntimalarialsMalaria, FalciparumBayes TheoremChloroquineHemeproteinsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationPlasmodium falciparumAntimalarialsChloroquineHemeproteinshemozoin

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PMID36788274
PMCPMC9929333

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