[HTML][HTML] Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: an ongoing challenge and a continuing need

…, MAJ Ferguson, DW Gray, KD Read… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The WHO recognizes human African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and the leishmaniases
as neglected tropical diseases. These diseases are caused by parasitic trypanosomatids …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-trypanosomatid drug discovery: progress and challenges

M De Rycker, S Wyllie, D Horn, KD Read… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Leishmaniasis (visceral and cutaneous), Chagas disease and human African trypanosomiasis
cause substantial death and morbidity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. …

Automated design of ligands to polypharmacological profiles

…, NG Seidah, DB Constam, GR Bickerton, KD Read… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The clinical efficacy and safety of a drug is determined by its activity profile across many
proteins in the proteome. However, designing drugs with a specific multi-target profile is both …

A novel multiple-stage antimalarial agent that inhibits protein synthesis

…, PA Willis, JC Rayner, DA Fidock, KD Read… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
There is an urgent need for new drugs to treat malaria, with broad therapeutic potential and
novel modes of action, to widen the scope of treatment and to overcome emerging drug …

N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness

…, DMF van Aalten, R Brenk, IH Gilbert, KD Read… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
… brucei NMT open reading frame was amplified from genomic DNA using suitable primers
and cloned into the plasmid vector pM2cN. The resulting construct encodes the target protein …

[HTML][HTML] Potent and selective chemical probe of hypoxic signalling downstream of HIF-α hydroxylation via VHL inhibition

…, M Bantscheff, P Grandi, KD Read… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Chemical strategies to using small molecules to stimulate hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs)
activity and trigger a hypoxic response under normoxic conditions, such as iron chelators and …

The anti-trypanosome drug fexinidazole shows potential for treating visceral leishmaniasis

…, FRC Simeons, S Norval, R Kime, KD Read… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
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Assessing brain free fraction in early drug discovery

KD Read, S Braggio - Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… Summerfield SG, Read K, Begley DJ, Central nervous system drug disposition: the …
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…, L Ellis, O Epemolu, S Rocha, KD Read… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor protein is the substrate binding subunit of the
VHL E3 ubiquitin ligase, which targets hydroxylated α subunit of hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) …

Cross-resistance to nitro drugs and implications for treatment of human African trypanosomiasis

…, S Wyllie, S Patterson, SL Oza, KD Read… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
The success of nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) for the treatment of
human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) has renewed interest in the potential of nitro drugs as …