Novel Synthetic Polyamines Have Potent Antimalarial Activities in vitro and in vivo by Decreasing Intracellular Spermidine and Spermine Concentrations
| Autor: | Kamal El Bissati, Henry Redel, Li-Min Ting, Joseph D. Lykins, Martin J. McPhillie, Rajendra Upadhya, Patrick M. Woster, Nigel Yarlett, Kami Kim, Louis M. Weiss |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Kaushansky, A |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Plasmodium spermine 030106 microbiology Immunology malaria lcsh:QR1-502 Spermine Pharmacology Microbiology lcsh:Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound polyamine In vivo spermidine parasitic diseases IC50 biology Plasmodium falciparum biology.organism_classification 3. Good health Spermidine 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases chemistry Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibitor biology.protein Spermidine synthase Polyamine spermidine synthase |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Vol 9 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2235-2988 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00009 |
| Popis: | Twenty-two compounds belonging to several classes of polyamine analogs have been examined for their ability to inhibit the growth of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and in vivo. Four lead compounds from the thiourea sub-series and one compound from the urea-based analogs were found to be potent inhibitors of both chloroquine-resistant (Dd2) and chloroquine-sensitive (3D7) strains of Plasmodium with IC50 values ranging from 150 to 460 nM. In addition, the compound RHW, N1,N7-bis (3-(cyclohexylmethylamino) propyl) heptane-1,7-diamine tetrabromide was found to inhibit Dd2 with an IC50 of 200 nM. When RHW was administered to P. yoelii-infected mice at 35 mg/kg for 4 days, it significantly reduced parasitemia. RHW was also assayed in combination with the ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor difluoromethylornithine, and the two drugs were found not to have synergistic antimalarial activity. Furthermore, these inhibitors led to decreased cellular spermidine and spermine levels in P. falciparum, suggesting that they exert their antimalarial activities by inhibition of spermidine synthase. |
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