A single, low, oral dose of a 5-carbon-linked trioxane dimer orthoester plus mefloquine cures malaria-infected mice

Deuk Kyu Moon; Abhai Tripathi; David Sullivan; Maxime A. Siegler; Sean Parkin; Gary H. Posner

doi:10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.09.123

A single, low, oral dose of a 5-carbon-linked trioxane dimer orthoester plus mefloquine cures malaria-infected mice

Deuk Kyu Moon, Abhai Tripathi, David Sullivan, Maxime A. Siegler, Sean Parkin, Gary H. Posner

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Abstract

Four 5-carbon-linked trioxane dimer orthoesters (6a-6d) have been prepared in 4 or 5 chemical steps from the natural trioxane artemisinin (1). When administered orally to malaria-infected mice using a single dose of only 6 mg/kg body weight along with 18 mg/kg of mefloquine hydrochloride, trioxane dimer orthoester sulfone 6d completely and safely cured the mice; after 30 days, the cured mice showed no detectable parasitemia, gained at least as much weight as the control mice (no infection), and behaved normally.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2773-2775
Number of pages	3
Journal	Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume	21
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.09.123
State	Published - May 1 2011

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank the NIH ( AI 34885 to G.H.P.), the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute , and the Bloomberg Family Foundation for financial support (to G.H.P. and to D.S.).

Funding

We thank the NIH ( AI 34885 to G.H.P.), the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute , and the Bloomberg Family Foundation for financial support (to G.H.P. and to D.S.).

Funders	Funder number
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases	R37AI034885
Bloomberg Family Foundation
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Keywords

Antimalarial chemotherapy
Single oral dose ACT cure
Trioxane dimer orthoesters

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Biochemistry
Molecular Medicine
Molecular Biology
Pharmaceutical Science
Drug Discovery
Clinical Biochemistry
Organic Chemistry

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