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SUBMITTER: Glenn MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2728208 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Glenn Matthew P MP Chang Sung-Youn SY Hornéy Carrie C Rivas Kasey K Yokoyama Kohei K Pusateri Erin E EE Fletcher Steven S Cummings Christopher G CG Buckner Frederick S FS Pendyala Prakash R PR Chakrabarti Debopam D Sebti Saïd M SM Gelb Michael M Van Voorhis Wesley C WC Hamilton Andrew D AD
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20060901 19
Third world nations require immediate access to inexpensive therapeutics to counter the high mortality inflicted by malaria. Here, we report a new class of antimalarial protein farnesyltransferase (PFT) inhibitors, designed with specific emphasis on simple molecular architecture, to facilitate easy access to therapies based on this recently validated antimalarial target. This novel series of compounds represents the first Plasmodium falciparum selective PFT inhibitors reported (up to 145-fold se ...[more]