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ArticleACS infectious diseases2024

The Tuberculosis Drug Candidate SQ109 and Its Analogs Have Multistage Activity against

Savannah J Watson, Mariëtte E van der Watt, Anjo Theron, Janette Reader, Sizwe Tshabalala, Erica Erlank, Lizette L Koekemoer, Mariska Naude, Marianna Stampolaki, Feyisola Adewole and 14 more

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Article in ACS infectious diseases, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Structural isomerisation affects the antitubercular activity of adamantyl-isoxyl adducts.Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Savannah J Watson
Mariëtte E van der Watt
Anjo TheronNext Generation Health, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Janette Reader
Sizwe Tshabalala
Erica ErlankCentre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.
Lizette L KoekemoerCentre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.
Mariska Naude
Marianna StampolakiLaboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Section of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis-Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.
Feyisola AdewoleDepartment of Biological, Physical and Health Sciences, College of Science, Health & Pharmacy, Roosevelt University, 425 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, United States.
Katie SadowskaDepartment of Biological, Physical and Health Sciences, College of Science, Health & Pharmacy, Roosevelt University, 425 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, United States.
Pilar Pérez-LozanoDepartment of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona 08028, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6899-066X
Andreea L TurcuLaboratori de Química Farmacèutica (Unitat Associada al CSIC), Departament de Farmacologia, Toxicologia i Química Terapèutica, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, and Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain.
Santiago VázquezLaboratori de Química Farmacèutica (Unitat Associada al CSIC), Departament de Farmacologia, Toxicologia i Química Terapèutica, Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació, and Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9296-6026
Jihee KoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7970-1509
Ben MazurekDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8555-4963
Davinder SinghDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Satish R MalwalDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7606-1932
Mathew NjorogeDrug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Capetown 7701, South Africa.
Kelly ChibaleDrug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Capetown 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-1327-4727
Oluseye K OnajoleDepartment of Biological, Physical and Health Sciences, College of Science, Health & Pharmacy, Roosevelt University, 425 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, United States.
Antonios KolocourisLaboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Section of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis-Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6110-1903
Eric OldfieldDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0996-7352
Lyn-Marié BirkholtzORCID 0000-0001-5888-2905

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toward repositioning the antitubercular clinical candidate SQ109 as an antimalarial, analogs were investigated for structure-activity relationships for activity against asexual blood stages of the human malaria parasite

Indexed as

AdamantaneAntimalarialsAntitubercular AgentsPlasmodium falciparumAnimalsEthylenediaminesHumansInhibitory Concentration 50Malaria, FalciparumStructure-Activity RelationshipAdamantaneAntimalarialsAntitubercular AgentsEthylenediaminesN-geranyl-N'-(2-adamantyl)ethane-1,2-diamineantimalarialmultistagePlasmodium falciparumSQ109transmission-blocking

Identifiers

PMID39143042
PMCPMC11406516

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