Table 1. List of antimalaria protein target, docking center coordinate, root mean square deviation (RMSD), and role of protein in Plasmodium falciparum

Protein (PDB ID) Center coordinate RMSD (Å) Role in antimalaria activity References
X Y Z
Lactate dehydrogenase (1ldg) 25.329 23.422 41.843 1.2875 Relating to the anaerobic nature of parasite life Dunn et al. (1996)
M1 Alanylaminopeptidase (3ebh) 14.248 11.055 12.141 1.4307 Involved in the terminal stages of hemoglobin digestion and essential for the provision of amino acids used for parasite growth and development within the erythrocyte. McGowan et al. (2009)
Plasmepsin II (5yib) 18.733 −25.663 −24.032 1.9086 Inhibition plasmepsin protein correlated with hemoglobin catabolism in which parasite survival was depended on host haemoglobin consumption Mishra et al. (2018)
PfNDH2 (5jwc) 29.304 10.210 25.414 1.4617 Inhibition of PfNDH2 will inhibit the reaction of ubiquinol formation, which will interfere with the parasite’s respiratory system Yang et al. (2017)
Falcylisin (8ho4) −32.065 5.463 −11.464 0.7339 Inhibition of falcylisin disrupt the short polypeptide cleavage process, resulted accumulation of short poplypeptide in organel Lin et al. (2024); Wirjanata et al. (2024)