Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Elucidating the path to Plasmodium prolyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors that overcome halofuginone resistance

  • Mark A. Tye,
  • N. Connor Payne,
  • Catrine Johansson,
  • Kritika Singh,
  • Sofia A. Santos,
  • Lọla Fagbami,
  • Akansha Pant,
  • Kayla Sylvester,
  • Madeline R. Luth,
  • Sofia Marques,
  • Malcolm Whitman,
  • Maria M. Mota,
  • Elizabeth A. Winzeler,
  • Amanda K. Lukens,
  • Emily R. Derbyshire,
  • Udo Oppermann,
  • Dyann F. Wirth,
  • Ralph Mazitschek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32630-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The development of antimalarials against the human liver and asexual blood stages is one of the top public health challenges. Here, the authors report a single-step biochemical assay for the characterization of prolyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitors, and develop high-affinity inhibitors for the enzyme, including elusive triple-site ligands.