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Schistosomiasis mansoni: novel chemotherapy using a cysteine protease inhibitor

Abdulla, Maha-Hamadien ; Lim, Kee-Chong ; Sajid, Mohammed ; McKerrow, James H ; Caffrey, Conor R Krishna, Sanjeev

PLoS medicine, 2007-01, Vol.4 (1), p.e14-e14 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: Public Library of Science

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Schistosomiasis mansoni: novel chemotherapy using a cysteine protease inhibitor
Autor: Abdulla, Maha-Hamadien ; Lim, Kee-Chong ; Sajid, Mohammed ; McKerrow, James H ; Caffrey, Conor R
Krishna, Sanjeev
Assuntos: Animals ; Biochemistry ; Cancer ; Care and treatment ; Cathepsins - metabolism ; Chemotherapy ; Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors - pharmacology ; Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitors - therapeutic use ; Cysteine proteinases ; Dipeptides - pharmacology ; Dipeptides - therapeutic use ; Drugs and adverse drug reactions ; Eggs ; Female ; Hepatomegaly - drug therapy ; Hepatomegaly - parasitology ; Infections ; Infectious Diseases ; Liver ; Liver - drug effects ; Liver - parasitology ; Liver - pathology ; Male ; Medicine in Developing Countries ; Methods ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Microbiology ; Ovum - drug effects ; Parasites ; Parasitic diseases ; Pathology ; Public health ; Researchers ; Schistosoma mansoni - drug effects ; Schistosoma mansoni - growth & development ; Schistosomiasis ; Schistosomiasis mansoni - drug therapy ; Snails - parasitology ; Spleen - drug effects ; Spleen - parasitology ; Spleen - pathology ; Splenomegaly - drug therapy ; Splenomegaly - parasitology ; Time Factors ; Tropical diseases ; Vinyl Compounds - pharmacology ; Vinyl Compounds - therapeutic use ; Worms
É parte de: PLoS medicine, 2007-01, Vol.4 (1), p.e14-e14
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Descrição: Schistosomiasis is a chronic, debilitating parasitic disease infecting more than 200 million people and is second only to malaria in terms of public health importance. Due to the lack of a vaccine, patient therapy is heavily reliant on chemotherapy with praziquantel as the World Health Organization-recommended drug, but concerns over drug resistance encourage the search for new drug leads. The efficacy of the vinyl sulfone cysteine protease inhibitor K11777 was tested in the murine model of schistosomiasis mansoni. Disease parameters measured were worm and egg burdens, and organ pathology including hepato- and splenomegaly, presence of parasite egg-induced granulomas in the liver, and levels of circulating alanine aminotransferase activity as a marker of hepatocellular function. K11777 (25 mg/kg twice daily [BID]), administered intraperitoneally at the time of parasite migration through the skin and lungs (days 1-14 postinfection [p.i.]), resulted in parasitologic cure (elimination of parasite eggs) in five of seven cases and a resolution of other disease parameters. K11777 (50 mg/kg BID), administered at the commencement of egg-laying by mature parasites (days 30-37 p.i.), reduced worm and egg burdens, and ameliorated organ pathology. Using protease class-specific substrates and active-site labeling, one molecular target of K11777 was identified as the gut-associated cathepsin B1 cysteine protease, although other cysteine protease targets are not excluded. In rodents, dogs, and primates, K11777 is nonmutagenic with satisfactory safety and pharmacokinetic profiles. The significant reduction in parasite burden and pathology by this vinyl sulfone cysteine protease inhibitor validates schistosome cysteine proteases as drug targets and offers the potential of a new direction for chemotherapy of human schistosomiasis.
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Schistosomiasis mansoni: novel chemotherapy using a cysteine protease inhibitor

Abdulla, Maha-Hamadien ; Lim, Kee-Chong ; Sajid, Mohammed ; McKerrow, James H ; Caffrey, Conor R Krishna, Sanjeev

United States: Public Library of Science

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