Abstract
Malaria is one of the most dangerous diseases affecting primarily poor people of tropical and subtropical regions. The search for novel drugs against specific parasites is an important goal for antimalarial drug discovery. This study describes how 3D pharmacophores for antimalarial activity could be developed from known antimalarials and be used as screening tools for virtual compound libraries to identify new antimalarial candidates with examples of indolo[2,1-b]quinazoline-6,12-diones (tryptanthrins) that exhibited in vitro activity below 100 ng/mL. These models mapped on the potent analogues and also onto other well-known antimalarial drugs of different chemical classes including quinolines, chalcones, rhodamine dyes, Pfmrk CDK inhibitors, malarial KASIII inhibitors, and plasmepsin inhibitors. The pharmacophores allowed search and identification of new antimalarials from in-house multi-conformer 3D CIS database and enabled custom designed synthesis of new potent analogues that are found to be potent against in vitro W2, D6, and TM91C235 strains of P. falciparum.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Computational Science - ICCS 2006 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 6th International Conference, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 387-394 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 3540343792, 9783540343790 |
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| State | Published - 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference on Computational Science - Reading, United Kingdom Duration: May 28 2006 → May 31 2006 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 3991 LNCS - I |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
| Other | ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference on Computational Science |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Reading |
| Period | 5/28/06 → 5/31/06 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science
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