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ReviewChemical biology & drug design2026

Cruzain Inhibitors for Chagas Disease: Anticorrelated Optimisation Landscapes and the Multiparametric Path to Clinical Candidates.

Caroline Rodrigues Chaves Dos Reis, Hellen Valério Chaves Moura de Souza, Lidia Corrêa Parra, Guilber Valério Chaves Moura de Souza, Bruna Costa Zorzanelli, Nubia Boechat, Lucas Villas Bôas Hoelz, Tácio Vinício Amorim Fernandes

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Review in Chemical biology & drug design, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Caroline Rodrigues Chaves Dos ReisFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8982-242X
Hellen Valério Chaves Moura de SouzaFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0152-0545
Lidia Corrêa ParraFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0134-4547
Guilber Valério Chaves Moura de SouzaFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Laboratório de Síntese de Fármacos (LASFAR), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2689-3488
Bruna Costa ZorzanelliUniversidade Estácio de Sá, Campus Niterói, Niterói, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5173-4624
Nubia BoechatFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-2218
Lucas Villas Bôas HoelzFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5592-3089
Tácio Vinício Amorim FernandesFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Instituto de Tecnologia em Fármacos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Pesquisa Translacional em Fármacos e Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-9519

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 440006/2022-8Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico 447623/2024-9Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Finance Code 001Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro FAPERJ-JCNE E-26/201.268/2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over three decades, cruzain, the principal cysteine protease of Trypanosoma cruzi and a validated drug target for Chagas disease, has accumulated 215 inhibitors with IC

Indexed as

Chagas DiseaseCysteine EndopeptidasesCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsProtozoan ProteinsTrypanocidal AgentsTrypanosoma cruziDrug DesignHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationQuantitative Structure-Activity Relationshipcruzain, Trypanosoma cruziCysteine EndopeptidasesCysteine Proteinase InhibitorsProtozoan ProteinsTrypanocidal AgentsChagas diseasecomputational drug designcruzaincysteine protease inhibitorsmolecular dynamicsmultiparametric optimisationQSARtranslational failureTrypanosoma cruzi

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PMID42290031
PMCPMC13266285

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