Plasmodium falciparum: new molecular targets with potential for antimalarial drug development Author Gardiner, Donald L, Skinner-Adams, Tina S, Brown, Christopher L, Andrews, Katherine T, Stack, Colin M, McCarthy, James S, Dalton, John P, Trenholme, Katharine R Published 2009 Journal Title Expert Reviews of Anti-Infective Therapy DOI https://doi.org/10.1586/eri.09.93 Copyright Statement © 2009 Expert Reviews Ltd.. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/30257 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Review For reprint orders, please contact
[email protected] Plasmodium falciparum: new molecular targets with potential for antimalarial drug development Expert Rev. Anti Infect. Ther. 7(9), 1087–1098 (2009) Donald L Gardiner†, Malaria remains one of the world’s most devastating infectious diseases. Drug resistance to all Tina S Skinner-Adams, classes of antimalarial agents has now been observed, highlighting the need for new agents Christopher L Brown, that act against novel parasite targets. The complete sequencing of the Plasmodium falciparum Katherine T Andrews, genome has allowed the identification of new molecular targets within the parasite that may be amenable to chemotherapeutic intervention. In this review, we investigate four possible Colin M Stack, targets for the future development of new classes of antimalarial agents. These targets include James S McCarthy, histone deacetylase, the aspartic proteases or plasmepsins, aminopeptidases and the purine John P Dalton and salvage enzyme hypoxanthine–xanthine–guanine phosphoribosyltransferase.