Design and Synthesis of Potent Antimalarial Agents Based on Clotrimazole Scaffold: Exploring an Innovative Pharmacophore
作者:Sandra Gemma、Giuseppe Campiani、Stefania Butini、Gagan Kukreja、Bhupendra P. Joshi、Marco Persico、Bruno Catalanotti、Ettore Novellino、Ernesto Fattorusso、Vito Nacci、Luisa Savini、Donatella Taramelli、Nicoletta Basilico、Giulia Morace、Vanessa Yardley、Caterina Fattorusso
DOI:10.1021/jm061429p
日期:2007.2.1
Identification of new molecular scaffolds structurally unrelated to known antimalarials may represent a valid strategy to overcome resistance of P. falciparum (Pf) to currently available drugs. We describe herein the investigation of a new polycyclic pharmacophore, related to clotrimazole, to develop innovative antimalarial agents. This study allowed us to discover compounds characterized by a high in vitro potency, particularly against Pf CQ-resistant strains selectively targeting free heme, which are easy to synthesize by low-cost synthetic strategies.