Identification and structural validation of purine nucleoside phosphorylase from Plasmodium falciparum as a target of MMV000848

• Main Authors: Chung, Zara, Lin, Jianqing, Wirjanata, Grennady, Dziekan, Jerzy Michal, El Sahili, Abbas, Preiser, Peter Rainer, Bozdech, Zbynek, Lescar, Julien
• 其他作者: School of Biological Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2024
• 主題: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Malaria; Enzyme inhibition
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174722
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

About 247 million cases of malaria occurred in 2021 with Plasmodium falciparum accounting for the majority of 619,000 deaths. In the absence of a widely available vaccine, chemotherapy remains crucial to prevent, treat, and contain the disease. The efficacy of several drugs currently used in the cli...