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ArticleACS chemical biology2026

The Human Chk1 Inhibitor CHIR-124 Shows Multistage Activity against the Human Malaria Parasite

Kathryn J Wicht, John G Woodland, Larnelle F Garnie, Henrico Langeveld, Dale Taylor, Luiz C Godoy, Charisse Flerida A Pasaje, Mariana Laureano de Souza, Jair L Siqueira-Neto, Sonja Ghidelli-Disse and 20 more

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

30 authors.

Kathryn J WichtHolistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6145-9956
John G WoodlandHolistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6273-5596
Larnelle F GarnieDepartment of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Henrico LangeveldDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
Dale TaylorHolistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.
Luiz C GodoyDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Charisse Flerida A PasajeDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Mariana Laureano de SouzaDepartment of Pediatrics and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0657, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1886-3878
Jair L Siqueira-NetoDepartment of Pediatrics and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0657, United States.
Sonja Ghidelli-DisseCellzome GmbH, a GSK Company, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Maria Jose Lafuente-MonasterioGlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Madrid 28760, Spain.
Francisco-Javier GamoGlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos Medicines Development Campus, Madrid 28760, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1854-2882
Dina CoertzenDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
Janette ReaderDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
Mariëtte van der WattDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.
Jessica L BridgfordDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Malaria Therapeutics and Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, United States.
Gareth GirlingWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, U.K.
Rachael CoyleWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, U.K.
Christian ScheurerDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland.
Sergio WittlinDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0811-0912
Arne AlderCentre for Structural Systems Biology, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Tim-Wolf GilbergerCentre for Structural Systems Biology, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Marcus C S LeeWellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, U.K.
Till S VossDepartment of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland.
Elizabeth A WinzelerDepartment of Pediatrics and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0657, United States.
David A FidockDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Malaria Therapeutics and Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, United States.
Jacquin C NilesDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6250-8796
Lyn-Marié BirkholtzDepartment of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria, Hatfield 0028, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5888-2905
Lauren B CoulsonHolistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-4699-0428
Kelly ChibaleHolistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-1327-4727

Funding

Defining the complex genetic basis of Plasmodium falciparum resistance to artemisinin and quinine and identifying resistance-refractory therapeuticsR01AI185559 · NIAID · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI David A Fidock · 2024 to 2026
$1.9M
Repurposing kinase inhibitor chemotypes as antimalarialsR01AI152092 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI CHIBALE, KELLY, FERRINS, LORI · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
New tools for antimalarial target identificationR01AI143521 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI WICHT, KATHRYN JEAN · 2019 to 2023
$709k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI143521NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI152092NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI185559
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The high burden of malaria and growing resistance to frontline antimalarials demand new drug target combinations with reduced propensities for conferring parasite resistance. An attractive approach for circumventing antimalarial drug resistance is target repurposing, in which known drugs that act through protein targets of human origin that are also active against the human malaria parasite

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AntimalarialsCheckpoint Kinase 1HemeproteinsPlasmodium falciparumProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtozoan ProteinsHumansMalaria, FalciparumAntimalarialsCheckpoint Kinase 1CHEK1 protein, humanHemeproteinshemozoinProtein Kinase InhibitorsProtozoan Proteins

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PMID42287204
PMCPMC13386468

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