Title:A Short Review of Antimalarial Compounds with Sulfonamide Moiety
Volume: 23
Issue: 21
Author(s): Leonardo C. Dantas, Vinicius R. Campos, Julio C. Borges and Luiz C.S. Pinheiro*
Affiliation:
- Departamento de Ciências Faculdade de Formação
de Professores, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, São Gonçalo, RJ, Brazil
Keywords:
Malaria, sulfonamide, Plasmodium falciparum, carbonic anhydrase, antimalarial drugs, PfCA.
Abstract: Malaria is a public health problem that causes thousands of deaths, primarily in children in
African regions. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have helped to save thousands of
lives; however, due to Plasmodium's resistance to available treatments, there is a need to search for
new low-cost drugs that act through different mechanisms of action to contain this disease. This review
shows that compounds with sulfonamide moiety, possibly, act as inhibitors of P. falciparum carbonic
anhydrases, moreover, when linked to a variety of heterocycles potentiate the activities of these
compounds and may be used in the design of new antimalarial drugs.