A small molecule glycosaminoglycan mimetic blocks Plasmodium invasion of the mosquito midgut

Derrick K Mathias; Rebecca Pastrana-Mena; Elisabetta Ranucci; Dingyin Tao; Paolo Ferruti; Corrie Ortega; Gregory O Staples; Joseph Zaia; Eizo Takashima; Takafumi Tsuboi; Natalie Borg; Luisella Verotta; Rhoel R Dinglasan

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003757

A small molecule glycosaminoglycan mimetic blocks Plasmodium invasion of the mosquito midgut

Derrick K Mathias
, Rebecca Pastrana-Mena
, Elisabetta Ranucci
, Dingyin Tao
, Paolo Ferruti
, Corrie Ortega
, Gregory O Staples
, Joseph Zaia
, Eizo Takashima
, Takafumi Tsuboi
, Natalie Borg
, Luisella Verotta
, Rhoel R Dinglasan

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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Malaria transmission-blocking (T-B) interventions are essential for malaria elimination. Small molecules that inhibit the Plasmodium ookinete-to-oocyst transition in the midgut of Anopheles mosquitoes, thereby blocking sporogony, represent one approach to achieving this goal. Chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans (CS-GAGs) on the Anopheles gambiae midgut surface are putative ligands for Plasmodium falciparum ookinetes. We hypothesized that our synthetic polysulfonated polymer, VS1, acting as a decoy molecular mimetic of midgut CS-GAGs confers malaria T-B activity. In our study, VS1 repeatedly reduced midgut oocyst development by as much as 99 (P

Original language	English
Article number	e1003757
Number of pages	14
Journal	PLoS Pathogens
Volume	9
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003757
Publication status	Published - 2013

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