Heme-artemisinin adducts are crucial mediators of the ability of artemisinin to inhibit heme polymerization.

Chemistry & Biology
R KannanVirander S Chauhan

Abstract

A lack of molecular understanding of the targets and mechanisms of artemisinin action has impeded the improvisation of more efficient antimalarials based on this class of endoperoxide drugs. We have synthesized a heme-artemisinin adduct designated as "hemart" to discover if it mediates the ability of artemisinin to inhibit heme polymerization. Hemart mimics heme in binding to Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein II (PfHRP II) but cannot self-polymerize. Instead, it inhibits all heme polymerizations, including basal and those triggered by PfHRP II, Monooleoyl glycerol (MOG), or P. yoelii extract. Hemart has an edge over heme in displacing heme from PfHRP II, and either low pH or chloroquine dissociates heme but not hemart from PfHRP II. Our results suggest that hemart, by mimicking heme, stalls all mechanisms of heme polymerization, resulting in the death of the malaria parasite.

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