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ACS OMEGA
Volume 5, Issue 29, Pages 17993-18006Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01256
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- UGC New Delhi
- DBT New Delhi
- UGC-CAS
- DST-PURSE-II
- DST-SAIF
- Panjab University Development fund
- CSIR, New Delhi
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Increasing resistance to presently available antimalarial drugs urges the need to look for new promising compounds. The beta-carboline moiety, present in several biologically active natural products and drugs, is an important scaffold for antimalarial drug discovery. The present study explores the antimalarial activity of a beta-carboline derivative (1R,3S)-methyl 1-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxo1-5-yl)-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H-pyrido[3,4-b] indole-3-carboxylate (9a) alone in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum and in vivo in combination therapy with the standard drug artesunate against Plasmodium berghei. Compound 9a inhibited both 3D7 and RKL-9 strains of P. falciparum with half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) < 1 mu g/mL, respectively. The compound was nontoxic (50% cytotoxic concentration (CC50) > 640 mu g/mL) to normal dermal fibroblasts. Selectivity index was >10 against both the strains. The compound exhibited considerable in vivo antimalarial activity (median effective dose (ED50) = 27.74 mg/kg) in monotherapy. The combination of 9a (100 mg/kg) and artesunate (50 mg/kg) resulted in 99.69% chemosuppression on day 5 along with a mean survival time of 25.8 +/- 4.91 days with complete parasite clearance. Biochemical studies indicated the safety of the HIT compound to hepatic and renal functions of mice. Molecular docking also highlighted the suitability of 9a as a potential antimalarial candidate.
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