Abstract
Plasmodium falciparum is the most serious health threat in Sub-Saharan Africa1. This situation is further aggravated by the resistance to currently known antimalarials coupled with the lack of an effective vaccine. Therefore, there is an urgent need to discover new viable biochemical targets and biologically active compounds. The discovery of a type II fatty acid biosynthesis pathway (FAS II) in P. falciparum, particularly, the enoyl-ACP reductase (PfENR), which catalyses the rate limiting step in each elongation circle, has been recognized and validated as an important target2,3. The present work capitalizes on the discovery of new antimalarial molecules based on PfENR inhibition.
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