“…Lead identification/optimization involved identification of potent antimalarial candidate molecules which are inhibitors of known specific Plasmodium targets (13 targets) encoded by the malaria parasite genome. These included: inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) (Raza et al, 2017), proteasome (LaMonte et al, 2017), lipid kinase PI(4)K (phosphatidylinositol-4-OH kinase) (Ren et al, 2016), heat shock regulated A (HrA or DegP) (Sharma et al, 2016), P. falciparum M18 (Kumari et al, 2016), P. falciparum aspartyl aminopeptidase (PfM18AAP) (Kumari et al, 2016), leucine amino peptidase (M17 LAP) (Rout and Mahapatra, 2016), P. falciparum glycogen synthase kinase-3 (PfGSK-3), P. falciparum CTP synthetase (PfCTPS), choline kinase (PfCK), and glutathione S-transferase (PfGST) (Verma et al, 2015), Plasmodium peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase (MacDonald and Boyd, 2015), Plasmodium phosphatases, cytochrome bc1 (Jimenez et al, 2013), and P. vivax subtilin-like serine protease (PvSUB1) (Bouillon et al, 2013). Application of the modeling for target identification/validation included Nmyristoyltransferase (NMT) (Paul et al, 2015), Plasmodium phosphatases (Campbell et al, 2014;Pandey et al, 2014), and PFI1625c metalloprotease (Lhouvum et al, 2013).…”