KDU691 is an orally active imidazopyrazine class antiparasitic that inhibits Plasmodium & Cryptosporidium phosphatidylinositol-4-OH kinase, PI(4)K, in an ATP-competitive, highly potent and selective manner (IC50/[ATP] = 1.5 nM/10 μM/P. vivax & 17 nM/3 μM/C. parvum PI(4)K) with little or no activity against human PI3Kα/β/γ/δ, PI4KIIIβ, VPS34, and 36 human protein kinases. KDU691 is effective against human pathogens P. falciparum, P. vivax, C. parvum and C. hominis, as well as simian parasite P. cynomolgi. KDU691 blocks Plasmodium development in all life-cycle stages and displays in vivo efficacy in murine models of malaria and cryptosporidiosis.
To develop new drugs and vaccines for malaria elimination, it will be necessary to discover biological interventions, including small molecules that act against Plasmodium vivax exoerythrocytic forms. However, a robust in vitro culture system for P. vivax is still lacking. Thus
A molecular understanding of drug resistance mechanisms enables surveillance of the effectiveness of new antimicrobial therapies during development and deployment in the field. We used conventional drug resistance selection as well as a regime of limiting dilution at early stages
Malaria control and elimination are threatened by the emergence and spread of resistance to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). Experimental evidence suggests that when an artemisinin (ART)-sensitive (K13 wild-type) Plasmodium falciparum strain is exposed to ART derivatives such as dihydroartemisinin (DHA)
Achieving the goal of malaria elimination will depend on targeting Plasmodium pathways essential across all life stages. Here we identify a lipid kinase, phosphatidylinositol-4-OH kinase (PI(4)K), as the target of imidazopyrazines, a new antimalarial compound class that inhibits the intracellular
Eradication of malaria requires a novel type of drug that blocks transmission from the human to the mosquito host, but selection of such a drug is hampered by a lack of translational models. Experimental mosquito infections yield infection intensities that
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