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“Several major anti-parasitic drugs, such as atovaquone and endochin-like quinolones, act through inhibition of the mitochondrial electron transport chain at the coenzyme Q :cytochrome c oxidoreductase complex (Complex III).”
“Our group previously demonstrated that atovaquone, but not stigmatellin (CoQ analog that is not a naphthoquinone), has additional activity in P. carinii [2]; atovaquone inhibited the synthesis of all four CoQ homologs.”
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology • 2003 | View Paper
“However, we observed that when intact organisms were treated with only 10 nM atovaquone , the biosynthesis of CoQ was also dramatically inhibited, and a complex triphasic response occurred as drug concentration was increased [3].”