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Harsha Valluri1, Amritansh Bhanot1, Shreeya Shah1
1Department of Pharmacy, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus, Vidya Vihar, Pilani, Rajasthan 333 031, India.
Abstract:
Most antimalarials are based on basic N-heterocycles and possess amine functionalities. Despite this, the role of basic nitrogen (BaN) in antimalarial drug design has not been studied systematically. Our cheminformatics analysis indicates that BaN is an important feature of antimalarial space. We show that potent research antiplasmodials (RAP) and advanced-stage antimalarials (ASAMs) consistently show a higher BaN count (#BaN) compared to oral drugs. Similarly, BaN is often a vital feature of the hits obtained from phenotypic screenings despite the use of varied assay conditions. The literature review demonstrates that in several unrelated scaffolds, the addition of BaN results in enhanced antiplasmodial activity. In addition, potent antiplasmodials and HTS hits are bulky, lipophilic, and less polar and have a high aromatic ring count (#AR). This characterization of antimalarial space may be used to collate a focused compound collection to achieve higher hit rates in HTS, as shown retrospectively in this perspective.
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