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Annual Review of Microbiology

Volume 74, 2020

Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance in Malaria

Abstract

Understanding and controlling the spread of antimalarial resistance, particularly to artemisinin and its partner drugs, is a top priority. parasites resistant to chloroquine, amodiaquine, or piperaquine harbor mutations in the chloroquine resistance transporter (PfCRT), a transporter resident on the digestive vacuole membrane that in its variant forms can transport these weak-base 4-aminoquinoline drugs out of this acidic organelle, thus preventing these drugs from binding heme and inhibiting its detoxification. The structure of PfCRT, solved by cryogenic electron microscopy, shows mutations surrounding an electronegative central drug-binding cavity where they presumably interact with drugs and natural substrates to control transport. susceptibility to heme-binding antimalarials is also modulated by overexpression or mutations in the digestive vacuole membrane–bound ABC transporter PfMDR1 ( multidrug resistance 1 transporter). Artemisinin resistance is primarily mediated by mutations in Kelch13 protein (K13), a protein involved in multiple intracellular processes including endocytosis of hemoglobin, which is required for parasite growth and artemisinin activation. Combating drug-resistant malaria urgently requires the development of new antimalarial drugs with novel modes of action.

Keyword(s): antimalarial drug resistance, artemisinin-based combination therapy, endocytosis, hemoglobin, k13, pfcrt, piperaquine, transport
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