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Record W4410286350 · doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00302

Cell-Based Progression of Spiroindoline Phenotypic Hits Leads to the Identification of Compounds with Diverging Parasitological Profiles against the Human Malaria Parasite <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i>

2025· article· en· W4410286350 on OpenAlexaff
Jean Dam, Grant A. Boyle, André Horatscheck, John G. Woodland, Claire Le Manach, Gurminder Kaur, Dale Taylor, Liezl Krugmann, Mathew Njoroge, Nina Lawrence, Christel Brunschwig, Victor Zdorichenko, Brian J. Cox, Sergio Wittlin, Thomas W von Geldern, Dennis A. Smith, James Duffy, Gregory S. Basarab, Kelly Chibale

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Medicinal Chemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMalaria Research and Control
Canadian institutionsDiscovery Centre
FundersUniversity of CapetownMedical Research CouncilSouth African Medical Research CouncilUniversity of Cape TownNational Research FoundationMedicines for Malaria VentureUniversity of Sussex
KeywordsPlasmodium falciparumMalariaParasite hostingChemistryIdentification (biology)ApicomplexaPhenotypePlasmodium (life cycle)Malarial parasitesComputational biologyImmunologyBiologyBiochemistryGeneEcology

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide In the search for novel chemotypes with high sp 3 character and activity against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, a spiroindoline series was identified from a phenotypic high-throughput screening campaign. The spiroindoline hit 2 displayed good activity against both drug-sensitive and multidrug-resistant Plasmodium strains, making it an attractive starting point for hit-to-lead progression. Structure–activity relationship studies led to the identification of a novel pyridylspiroindoline frontrunner ( 50 ) with improved antiplasmodial activity, aqueous solubility, and microsomal metabolic stability. Data from additional parasitological profiling suggested that 50 likely has a mode of action differing from that of the original spiroindoline hit. Compound 50 showed excellent in vivo pharmacokinetics with efficacy being achieved in a humanized immunodeficient NSG mouse P. falciparum infection model. This provided a pharmacological proof-of-concept for this series, making it a valuable starting point for further optimization in the quest for novel antimalarial therapeutics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.313
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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