Article
Orthosteric-allosteric dual inhibitors of PfHT1 as selective anti-malarial agents
2020-08-26
Abstract excerpt
Artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites have emerged and been spreading, posing a significant public health challenge. Anti-malarial drugs with novel mechanisms of action are therefore urgently needed. In this report, we exploit a “selective starvation” strategy by selectively inhibiting Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter 1 (PfHT1), the sole hexose transporter in Plasmodium falciparum , over human glucose...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 647f5ad0-fc97-51cd-8755-6035f0cb3d15
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.08.25.260232
