Using yeast synthetic lethality to inform drug combination for malaria [PublishAheadOfPrint]

Combinatorial chemotherapy is imperative for the treatment of malaria. However, finding a suitable partner drug for a new candidate is challenging. Here we develop an algorithm that identifies all the gene pairs of Plasmodium falciparum which possess orthologues in yeast that have a synthetic lethal interaction, but are absent in humans. This suggests new options for drug combinations, in particular for inhibitors of targets like P. falciparum calcineurin, cation ATPase 4, or phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase.

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