1. Identification of novel quinazoline derivatives as potent antiplasmodial agents
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Johan Schultz, Dany Pechalrieu, Sergio Valente, Anne Bouchut, Tina S. Skinner-Adams, Giancarlo Fabrizi, Paola B. Arimondo, Urban Hoglund, Katherine T. Andrews, Roberta Mazzone, Sophia Lafitte, Antonello Mai, Alessia Lucidi, Christine Pierrot, Ming Jang Chua, Jamal Khalife, Dante Rotili, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] [UNIROMA], Pharmacochimie de la Régulation Epigénétique du Cancer [ETaC], Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Kancera AB [Sweden], Adlego Biomedical AB [Sweden], Pharmacochimie de la Régulation Epigénétique du Cancer (ETaC), PIERRE FABRE-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY AUS, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), This work was supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1074016 to K.T.A.), Italian PRIN 2016 (prot. 20152TE5PK to A.M.), AIRC 2016 (n. 19162 to A.M.), NIH (n. R01GM114306 to A.M.), Progetto Ateneo Sapienza 2017 (to D.R.), the A-ParaDDisE program funded under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement no. 602080 to A.B., C.P., S.L., A.M., D.R., S.V., J.S., U.H., K.T.A. and J.K.) and Griffith University (GUIPRS and GUPRS scholarships to M.J.C.). We thank Mary Clarke (Griffith University) for technical assistance. We also thank the BioImaging Center Lille Facility for access to the BD FACSCanto II cytometer., European Project: 602080,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1,A-PARADDISE(2014), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA), Griffith University [Brisbane], Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - INSERM U1019 - UMR 9017 (CIIL), Université de Lille-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome], and PIERRE FABRE-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Plasmodium berghei ,Molecular Conformation ,Pharmacology ,MESH: Parasitic Sensitivity Tests ,01 natural sciences ,Antimalarial agents ,MESH: Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,Mice ,MESH: Structure-Activity Relationship ,Parasitic Sensitivity Tests ,PK studies ,Histone deacetylase inhibitors ,Drug Discovery ,P. berghei mouse model ,MESH: Animals ,Antimalarial Agent ,DNA methyltransferase inhibitors ,Artemisinin ,MESH: Plasmodium falciparum ,media_common ,0303 health sciences ,Mice, Inbred BALB C ,biology ,Chemistry ,General Medicine ,3. Good health ,MESH: Quinazolines ,[SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology ,medicine.drug ,Drug ,antimalarial agents ,histone deacetylase inhibitors ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Plasmodium falciparum ,MESH: Mice, Inbred BALB C ,Context (language use) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Antimalarials ,Structure-Activity Relationship ,In vivo ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,MESH: Plasmodium berghei ,[CHIM]Chemical Sciences ,Animals ,Humans ,MESH: Mice ,030304 developmental biology ,MESH: Molecular Conformation ,MESH: Humans ,Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ,010405 organic chemistry ,Organic Chemistry ,Fibroblasts ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,MESH: Antimalarials ,0104 chemical sciences ,MESH: Fibroblasts ,Quinazolines ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Malaria - Abstract
International audience; Despite the recent reductions in the global burden of malaria, this disease remains a devastating cause of death in tropical and subtropical regions. As there is no broadly effective vaccine for malaria, prevention and treatment still rely on chemotherapy. Unfortunately, emerging resistance to the gold standard artemisinin combination therapies means that new drugs with novel modes of action are urgently needed. In this context, Plasmodium histone modifying enzymes have emerged as potential drug targets, prompting us to develop and optimize compounds directed against such epigenetic targets. A panel of 51 compounds designed to target different epigenetic enzymes were screened for activity against Plasmodium falciparum parasites. Based on in vitro activity against drug susceptible and drug-resistant P. falciparum lines, selectivity index criterion and favorable pharmacokinetic properties, four compounds, one HDAC inhibitor (1) and three DNMT inhibitors (37, 43 and 45), were selected for preclinical studies in a mouse model of malaria. In vivo data showed that 37, 43 and 45 exhibited oral efficacy in the mouse model of Plasmodium berghei infection. These compounds represent promising starting points for the development of novel antimalarial drugs.
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