Antimalarial Asexual Stage-Specific and Gametocytocidal Activities of HIV Protease Inhibitors
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Andrews, Katherine T
Eickel, Nina
MacDonald, Timothy
Butterworth, Alice S
Trenholme, Katharine R
Gardiner, Donald L
McCarthy, James S
Skinner-Adams, Tina S
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The stage-specific antimalarial activities of a panel of antiretroviral protease inhibitors (PIs), including two nonpeptidic PIs (tipranavir and darunavir), were tested in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum. While darunavir demonstrated limited antimalarial activity (effective concentration [EC50], >50 μM), tipranavir was active at clinically relevant concentrations (EC50, 12 to 21 μM). Saquinavir, lopinavir, and tipranavir preferentially inhibited the growth of mature asexual-stage parasites (24 h postinvasion). While all of the PIs tested inhibited gametocytogenesis, tipranavir was the only one to exhibit gametocytocidal activity.
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Antimicrobial agents and Chemotherapy
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54
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© 2010 American Society for Microbiology. 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.
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Microbiology
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