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Influence of Amodiaquine on the Antimalarial Activity of Ellagic Acid: Crystallographic and Biological Studies
Author(s) -
Żesławska Ewa,
Oleksyn Barbara,
Fabre Aude,
BenoitVical Françoise
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemical biology and drug design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.59
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1747-0285
pISSN - 1747-0277
DOI - 10.1111/cbdd.12359
Subject(s) - amodiaquine , ellagic acid , chemistry , plasmodium falciparum , stereochemistry , molecule , hydrogen bond , biological activity , triclinic crystal system , in vitro , biochemistry , biology , organic chemistry , malaria , antioxidant , polyphenol , immunology
In the search for new antimalarial drugs, design of hybrid molecules is recommended to improve biological activity and to decrease the risk of parasite resistance development. Ellagic acid, as an inhibitor of Plasmodium glutathione, presents an original mode of action and thus appears as a promising antiplasmodial compound. A new complex ( AQ – EA ) consisting of the well‐known antimalarial drug, amodiaquine, and ellagic acid was obtained. The studied crystal structure of AQ – EA showed that the triclinic centrosymmetrical unit cell of the crystal contains two molecules of amodiaquine ( AQ ) and two symmetrically independent molecules of ellagic acid ( EA ). The packing of the molecules in the crystal is dominated by hydrogen bonds between AQ and EA . The antiplasmodial activity of the hybrid complex AQ –EA was also determined and compared with the values of IC 50 for AQ and EA separately. Potentiation assays between both molecules were conducted to understand the pharmacological interactions between AQ and EA against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro . The hybrid complex AQ – EA (IC 50 of 47 n m ) showed improved antiplasmodial activity in comparison with EA alone.