Chemoprotective antimalarials identified through quantitative high-throughput screening of Plasmodium blood and liver stage parasites

The spread of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to most first-line antimalarials creates an imperative to enrich the drug discovery pipeline, preferably with curative compounds that can also act prophylactically. We report a phenotypic quantitative high-throughput screen (qHTS), based on concentration-response curves, which was designed to identify compounds active against Plasmodium liver and asexual blood stage parasites. Our qHTS screened over 450,000 compounds, tested across a range of 5 to 11 concentrations, for activity against Plasmodium falciparum asexual blood stages. Active compounds were then filtered for unique structures and drug-like properties and subsequently screened in a P. berghei liver stage assay to identify novel dual-active antiplasmodial chemotypes. Hits from thiadiazine and pyrimidine azepine chemotypes were subsequently prioritized for resistance selection studies, yielding distinct mutations in P. falciparum cytochrome b, a validated antimalarial drug target. The thiadiazine chemotype was subjected to an initial medicinal chemistry campaign, yielding a metabolically stable analog with sub-micromolar potency. Our qHTS methodology and resulting dataset provides a large-scale resource to investigate Plasmodium liver and asexual blood stage parasite biology and inform further research to develop novel chemotypes as causal prophylactic antimalarials.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 11(2021), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 2121

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dorjsuren, Dorjbal [VerfasserIn]
Eastman, Richard T [VerfasserIn]
Wicht, Kathryn J [VerfasserIn]
Jansen, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Talley, Daniel C [VerfasserIn]
Sigmon, Benjamin A [VerfasserIn]
Zakharov, Alexey V [VerfasserIn]
Roncal, Norma [VerfasserIn]
Girvin, Andrew T [VerfasserIn]
Antonova-Koch, Yevgeniya [VerfasserIn]
Will, Paul M [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Pranav [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Hongmao [VerfasserIn]
Klumpp-Thomas, Carleen [VerfasserIn]
Mok, Sachel [VerfasserIn]
Yeo, Tomas [VerfasserIn]
Meister, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Marugan, Juan Jose [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Leila S [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Maloney, David J [VerfasserIn]
Jadhav, Ajit [VerfasserIn]
Mott, Bryan T [VerfasserIn]
Sciotti, Richard J [VerfasserIn]
Winzeler, Elizabeth A [VerfasserIn]
Waters, Norman C [VerfasserIn]
Campbell, Robert F [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Wenwei [VerfasserIn]
Simeonov, Anton [VerfasserIn]
Fidock, David A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antimalarials
Journal Article
Protective Agents
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Thiadiazines

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Date Completed 20.09.2021

Date Revised 20.09.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-021-81486-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320457494