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Lead optimisation of dehydroemetine for repositioned use in malaria.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2020 January 22
Drug repositioning offers an effective alternative to de novo drug design to tackle the urgent need for novel anti-malarial treatments. The anti-amoebic compound, emetine dihydrochloride, has been identified as a potent in-vitro inhibitor of the multi-drug resistant strain K1 of Plasmodium falciparum (IC50 : 47 nM ± 2.1 nM). Dehydroemetine, a synthetic analogue of emetine dihydrochloride has been reported to have less cardiotoxic effects than emetine. The structures of two diastereomers of dehydroemetine were modelled on the published emetine binding site on cryo-EM structure 3J7A (Pf 80S ribosome in complex with emetine) and it was found that ( -)-R,S- dehydroemetine mimicked the bound pose of emetine more closely than ( -)-S,S- dehydroisoemetine. ( -)-R,S- dehydroemetine (IC50 71.03 ± 6.1 nM) was also found to be highly potent against the multi-drug resistant K1 strain of P. falciparum in comparison with ( -)-S,S- dehydroisoemetine (IC50 2.07 ± 0.26 μM), which loses its potency due to the change of configuration at C-1'. In addition to its effect on the asexual erythrocytic stages of P. falciparum , the compounds exhibited gametocidal properties with no cross-resistance against any of the multi-drug resistant strains tested. Drug interaction studies showed ( -)-R,S- dehydroemetine to have synergistic antimalarial activity with atovaquone and proguanil. Emetine dihydrochloride, and ( -)-R,S- dehydroemetine failed to show any inhibition of the hERG potassium channel and displayed activity on the mitochondrial membrane potential indicating a possible multi-modal mechanism of action.
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