Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like protease 1: Discovery of potent difluorostatone-based inhibitors

RSC Advances

Volumn 5, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 22431-22448

  Giovani, Simone ^a,b   Penzo, Maria ^c   Butini, Stefania ^a,b   Brindisi, Margherita ^a,b   Gemma, Sandra ^a,b   Novellino, Ettore ^a,d   Campiani, Giuseppe ^a,b   Blackman, Michael J ^c   Brogi, Simone ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DRUG THERAPY;

CROSS RESISTANCE; DEPTH STRUCTURE; DRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POTENT INHIBITOR; POTENTIAL DRUG TARGETS; SERINE PROTEASE; SYNTHETIC APPROACH;

GENE ENCODING;

EID: 84930002657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra01170a     Document Type: Article

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