A long-duration dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor (DSM265) for prevention and treatment of malaria

Margaret A. Phillips; Julie Lotharius; Kennan Marsh; John White; Anthony Dayan; Karen L. White; Jacqueline W. Njoroge; Farah El Mazouni; Yanbin Lao; Sreekanth Kokkonda; Diana R. Tomchick; Xiaoyi Deng; Trevor Laird; Sangeeta N. Bhatia; Sandra March; Caroline L. Ng; David A. Fidock; Sergio Wittlin; Maria Lafuente-Monasterio; Francisco Javier Gamo Benito; Laura Maria Sanz Alonso; Maria Santos Martinez; Maria Belen Jimenez-Diaz; Santiago Ferrer Bazaga; Iñigo Angulo-Barturen; John N. Haselden; James Louttit; Yi Cui; Arun Sridhar; Anna-Marie Zeeman; Clemens Kocken; Robert Sauerwein; Koen Dechering; Vicky M. Avery; Sandra Duffy; Michael Delves; Robert Sinden; Andrea Ruecker; Kristina S. Wickham; Rosemary Rochford; Janet Gahagen; Lalitha Iyer; Ed Riccio; Jon Mirsalis; Ian Bathhurst; Thomas Rueckle; Xavier Ding; Brice Campo; Didier Leroy; M. John Rogers; Pradipsinh K. Rathod; Jeremy N. Burrows; Susan A. Charman

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa6645

Research ArticleMalaria

A long-duration dihydroorotate dehydrogenase inhibitor (DSM265) for prevention and treatment of malaria

Margaret A. Phillips¹,*,
Julie Lotharius²,
Kennan Marsh³,
John White⁴,
Anthony Dayan²,
Karen L. White⁵,
Jacqueline W. Njoroge¹,
Farah El Mazouni¹,
Yanbin Lao³,
Sreekanth Kokkonda⁴,
Diana R. Tomchick⁶,
Xiaoyi Deng¹,
Trevor Laird²,
Sangeeta N. Bhatia⁷,
Sandra March⁷,
Caroline L. Ng⁸,
David A. Fidock⁸,⁹,
Sergio Wittlin¹⁰,¹¹,
Maria Lafuente-Monasterio¹²,
Francisco Javier Gamo Benito¹²,
Laura Maria Sanz Alonso¹²,
Maria Santos Martinez¹²,
Maria Belen Jimenez-Diaz¹²,
Santiago Ferrer Bazaga¹²,
Iñigo Angulo-Barturen¹²,
John N. Haselden¹²,
James Louttit¹³,
Yi Cui¹³,
Arun Sridhar¹³,
Anna-Marie Zeeman¹⁴,
Clemens Kocken¹⁴,
Robert Sauerwein¹⁵,
Koen Dechering¹⁵,
Vicky M. Avery¹⁶,
Sandra Duffy¹⁶,
Michael Delves¹⁷,
Robert Sinden¹⁷,
Andrea Ruecker¹⁷,
Kristina S. Wickham¹⁸,
Rosemary Rochford¹⁸,
Janet Gahagen¹⁹,
Lalitha Iyer¹⁹,
Ed Riccio¹⁹,
Jon Mirsalis¹⁹,
Ian Bathhurst²,
Thomas Rueckle²,
Xavier Ding²,
Brice Campo²,
Didier Leroy²,
M. John Rogers²⁰,
Pradipsinh K. Rathod⁴,
Jeremy N. Burrows² and
Susan A. Charman⁵,*

¹Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.
²Medicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland.
³Abbvie, 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, IL 60064–6104, USA.
⁴Departments of Chemistry and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
⁵Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
⁶Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.
⁷Health Sciences and Technology/Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
⁸Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
⁹Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.
¹⁰Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland.
¹¹University of Basel, 4003 Basel, Switzerland.
¹²GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Severo Ochoa, Madrid 28760, Spain.
¹³GSK, Park Road, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 0DP, UK.
¹⁴Biomedical Primate Research Centre, P.O. Box 3306, 2280 GH Rijswijk, Netherlands.
¹⁵TropIQ Health Sciences, 6525 GA Nijmegen, Netherlands.
¹⁶Discovery Biology, Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia.
¹⁷Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AY, UK.
¹⁸State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
¹⁹SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
²⁰National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 6610 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: margaret.phillips{at}utsouthwestern.edu (M.A.P.); susan.charman{at}monash.edu (S.A.C.)

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Science Translational Medicine 15 Jul 2015:
Vol. 7, Issue 296, pp. 296ra111
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa6645

Margaret A. Phillips

Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.

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For correspondence: margaret.phillips@utsouthwestern.edu susan.charman@monash.edu

Julie Lotharius

Medicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland.

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Kennan Marsh

Abbvie, 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, IL 60064–6104, USA.

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John White

Departments of Chemistry and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

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Anthony Dayan

Medicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland.

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Karen L. White

Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.

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Jacqueline W. Njoroge

Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.

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Farah El Mazouni

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Yanbin Lao

Abbvie, 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, IL 60064–6104, USA.

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Sreekanth Kokkonda

Departments of Chemistry and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

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Diana R. Tomchick

Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.

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Xiaoyi Deng

Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 6001 Forest Park Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390–9041, USA.

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Trevor Laird

Medicines for Malaria Venture, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland.

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Sangeeta N. Bhatia

Health Sciences and Technology/Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Sandra March

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Caroline L. Ng

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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David A. Fidock

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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Sergio Wittlin

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Maria Lafuente-Monasterio

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Severo Ochoa, Madrid 28760, Spain.

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Francisco Javier Gamo Benito

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Laura Maria Sanz Alonso

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Maria Santos Martinez

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Maria Belen Jimenez-Diaz

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Santiago Ferrer Bazaga

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Iñigo Angulo-Barturen

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John N. Haselden

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James Louttit

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Yi Cui

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Arun Sridhar

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Anna-Marie Zeeman

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Robert Sauerwein

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Vicky M. Avery

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Kristina S. Wickham

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Janet Gahagen

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Ed Riccio

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Jon Mirsalis

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Ian Bathhurst

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Thomas Rueckle

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Xavier Ding

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Brice Campo

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Didier Leroy

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M. John Rogers

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Pradipsinh K. Rathod

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Jeremy N. Burrows

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Susan A. Charman

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For correspondence: margaret.phillips@utsouthwestern.edu susan.charman@monash.edu

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The antimalarial drug DSM265 displays activity against blood and liver stages of Plasmodium falciparum and has a long predicted half-life in humans.

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