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Selective and potent in vitro antimalarial activities found in four microbial metabolites
The Journal of Antibiotics
|April 21, 2007
Abstract:
Antimalarial activities have been identified in four microbial metabolites through a screening programme of existing compounds in the Kitasato Institute chemical library. Hedamycin showed selective and potent activity against both drug-resistant and drug-sensitive strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Simaomicin alpha exhibited remarkably strong antimalarial activity, although its activity against a drug-resistant strain was weaker than that against a drug-sensitive strain. The antimalarial effects of triacsins C and D are also reported.
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