Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10595211 | Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Resistance of malaria parasites has quickly developed to almost all used antimalarial drugs. Accordingly, the discovery of new effective drugs to counter the spread of malaria parasites that are resistant to existing agents, especially acting on multi-targets, is an urgent need. The cysteine protease falcipain-2 (FP-2) and dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) play crucial roles in the Plasmodium life cycle. In this study, a series of first-gereration small molecular dual inhibitor of FP-2 and DHFR have been designed and synthesized based on the lead compound 1, which was randomly identified by screening FP-2 inhibitors in our laboratory. Six compounds (2f-g, 2j, and 2m-o) showed improved dual inhibitory activities against FP-2 (IC50 = 2.7-13.2 μM) and DHFR (IC50 = 1.8-19.8 μM), and the inhibitory capability of compound 2o against FP-2 and DHFR were increased â¼8 and â¼6 times than that of compound 1, respectively. Moreover, compound 2o exhibited moderate in vivo antimalarial activity in a dose dependent fashion, its safety and survival rate were slightly better than that of positive drug. The preliminary SAR was obtained, meanwhile, molecular modeling result provided the key structural information to maintain the dual inhibitory activity, and was helpful for future dual inhibitors design.
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Authors
Huang Huang, Weiqiang Lu, Xi Li, Xiaoli Cong, Hongmei Ma, Xiaofeng Liu, Yu Zhang, Peng Che, Ruoqun Ma, Honglin Li, Xu Shen, Hualiang Jiang, Jin Huang, Jin Zhu,