Targeting Plasmepsins-An Achilles' Heel of the Malaria Parasite.

Cell Host Microbe

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva 1201, Switzerland.

Published: April 2020

Recently, two Plasmodium aspartyl proteases were identified as druggable targets impacting parasite survival. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Favuzza et al. describe the optimization of a compound series acting on both targets, heralding the prospect of a new class of antimalarials for clinical studies.

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