Phenotypic screening reveals a highly selective phthalimide-based compound with antileishmanial activity

• Farnaz Zahedifard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farnaz Zahedifard, Meenakshi Bansal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Drug Discovery and Evaluation Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Biocev, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Meenakshi Bansal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Farnaz Zahedifard, Meenakshi Bansal

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations H. G. Khorana Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, Department of Chemistry, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram, University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Sonepat Haryana, India

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• Neha Sharma,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation H. G. Khorana Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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• Sumit Kumar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram, University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Sonepat Haryana, India

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• Siqi Shen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Drug Discovery and Evaluation Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Biocev, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Priyamvada Singh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, Delhi School of Public Health, Institution of Eminence, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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• Brijesh Rathi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brijeshrathi@hrc.du.ac.in (BR); zoltnerm@natur.cuni.cz (MZ)

  Affiliations H. G. Khorana Centre for Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, Delhi School of Public Health, Institution of Eminence, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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• Martin Zoltner

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brijeshrathi@hrc.du.ac.in (BR); zoltnerm@natur.cuni.cz (MZ)

  Affiliation Drug Discovery and Evaluation Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Biocev, Vestec, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-285X

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