Covalent Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase with Antimalarial Activity in Vitro

ACS Med Chem Lett. 2019 Feb 20;10(4):590-595. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.8b00592. eCollection 2019 Apr 11.

Abstract

Covalent inhibitors of PfGAPDH characterized by a 3-bromoisoxazoline warhead were developed, and their mode of interaction with the target enzyme was interpreted by means of molecular modeling studies: some of them displayed a submicromolar antiplasmodial activity against both chloroquine sensitive and resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, with good selectivity indices.