Trioxaquine PA1259 alkylates heme in the blood-feeding parasite Schistosoma mansoni

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 May;55(5):2403-5. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00082-11. Epub 2011 Feb 7.

Abstract

Trioxaquine PA1259 is an efficient drug on larval- and adult-stage schistosomes, able to alkylate heme inside worms treated with it, leading to the formation of covalent heme-drug adducts. Such a mechanism, similar to one reported for other trioxaquines in Plasmodium, indicates that heme may be a common target of these trioxane-based drugs in different blood-feeding parasites.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alkylation
  • Animals
  • Anthelmintics / metabolism
  • Anthelmintics / therapeutic use*
  • Heme / metabolism*
  • Mice
  • Schistosoma mansoni / drug effects*
  • Schistosoma mansoni / metabolism*
  • Schistosoma mansoni / pathogenicity
  • Schistosomiasis mansoni / parasitology

Substances

  • Anthelmintics
  • Heme