Searching for Selective Scaffolds against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase 6-Phosphogluconolactonase

Antonio Viayna; David Vílchez; Javier Vázquez; Susana Pérez-Benavente; José Manuel Bautista; Francisco Javier Luque

doi:10.3390/proceedings2019022028

Proceedings (Aug 2019)

Searching for Selective Scaffolds against <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase 6-Phosphogluconolactonase

Antonio Viayna,
David Vílchez,
Javier Vázquez,
Susana Pérez-Benavente,
José Manuel Bautista,
Francisco Javier Luque

Affiliations

Antonio Viayna: Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (ITQCUB), University of Barcelona, Av. Prat de la Riba 171, 08921 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain
David Vílchez: Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (ITQCUB), University of Barcelona, Av. Prat de la Riba 171, 08921 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain
Javier Vázquez: Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (ITQCUB), University of Barcelona, Av. Prat de la Riba 171, 08921 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain
Susana Pérez-Benavente: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Veterinaria, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain
José Manuel Bautista: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Veterinaria, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Francisco Javier Luque: Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB) and Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (ITQCUB), University of Barcelona, Av. Prat de la Riba 171, 08921 Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019022028
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 22, no. 1
p. 28

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Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium spp., being one of the major causes of death worldwide with two-hundred million new infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths in 2015. [...]

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