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Zhu J, Song L, Shen S, Fu W, Zhu Y, Liu L. Bioactive Alkaloids as Secondary Metabolites from Plant Endophytic Aspergillus Genus. Molecules 2023; 28:7789. [PMID: 38067519 PMCID: PMC10707824 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28237789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Alkaloids represent a large family of natural products with diverse structures and bioactivities. These compounds and their derivatives have been widely used in clinics to treat various diseases. The endophytic Aspergillus is a filamentous fungus renowned for its extraordinary ability to produce active natural products of high therapeutic value and economic importance. This review is the first to focus on Aspergillus-derived alkaloids. Through an extensive literature review and data analysis, 263 alkaloids are categorized according to their structural features into those containing cytochalasans, diketopiperazine alkaloids, quinazoline alkaloids, quinoline alkaloids, indole alkaloids, pyrrolidine alkaloids, and others. These metabolites exhibited diverse biological activities, such as antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity, anti-inflammatory activity, and α-glucosidase, ACE, and DPPH inhibitory activities. The bioactivity, structural diversity, and occurrence of these alkaloids are reviewed in detail.
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- Juntai Zhu
- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
- Center for Medical Device Evaluation, NMPA, Beijing 100081, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
- State Key Laboratory for Quality Ensurance and Sustainable Use of Dao-di Herbs, Artemisinin Research Center, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
- School of Life Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; (J.Z.); (L.S.); (S.S.); (W.F.); (Y.Z.)
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Biosynthesis of dihydroxyardeemin by heterologous expression. Tetrahedron 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2022.133095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Natural quinazolinones: From a treasure house to promising anticancer leads. Eur J Med Chem 2022; 245:114915. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Vigneshwari A, Erdenebileg S, Fujkin K, Csupor D, Hohmann J, Papp T, Vágvölgyi C, Szekeres A. Revealing of biodiversity and antimicrobial effects of Artemisia asiatica endophytes. ACTA BIOLOGICA SZEGEDIENSIS 2021. [DOI: 10.14232/abs.2020.2.111-119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Endophytic fungi produce a plethora of secondary metabolites, which may open new avenues to study their applicability in pharmaceuticals. Therefore, the present study focuses on the fungal endophytic community of Artemisia asiatica. During our work, fungal endophytes were isolated from a medicinal plant, A. asiatica. The culturable endophytic fungi were identified using molecular techniques and biodiversity, richness and tissue specificity were examined. As these microorganisms have been generally identified as an abundant reservoir of novel antimicrobial compounds, the antimicrobial (i.e. antibacterial and antifungal) activities of the metabolites produced by the isolated fungi were studied. Numerous extracts containing the endophytic metabolites proved to be active against the applied test microorganisms including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as yeasts and filamentous fungi, which can be examined in detail in the future and, based on the the chemical nature of these active metabolites, allow to discover novel bioactive metabolites.
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- Aruna Vigneshwari
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Szeged
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
- MTA-SZTE Fungal Pathogenicity Mechanisms Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - University of Szeged
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged
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Díaz-Rojas M, Raja H, González-Andrade M, Rivera-Chávez J, Rangel-Grimaldo M, Rivero-Cruz I, Mata R. Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B inhibitors from the fungus Malbranchea albolutea. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2021; 184:112664. [PMID: 33524855 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Revised: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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From solid rice-based cultures of Malbranchea albolutea, three undescribed ardeemins and sartoryglabrins analogs were discovered and named alboluteins A-C. 1H-Indole-3-carbaldehyde, and anthranilic acid were also isolated. 1D and 2D-NMR techniques, as well as DFT-calculated chemical shifts, allowed characterizing alboluteins A-C. Testing these compounds against PTP1B indicated their inhibitory activity with IC50's ranging from 19 to 129 μM (ursolic acid IC50 = 29.8 μM, positive control). Kinetic analysis revealed that albolutein C behaved as a non-competitive inhibitor. Docking studies of alboluteins A-C into the crystal structure of PTP1B (PDB ID: 1T49) predicted that all compounds prefer to bind at the allosteric site of the enzyme, with Ki values of 2.02 × 10-4, 1.31 × 10-4, and 2.67 × 10-4 mM, respectively. Molecular dynamic studies indicated that the active compounds remained tied to the enzyme with good binding energy.
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- Miriam Díaz-Rojas
- Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, 27412, NC, USA
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- Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
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- Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico.
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Kumar A, Jaitak V. Natural products as multidrug resistance modulators in cancer. Eur J Med Chem 2019; 176:268-291. [PMID: 31103904 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Cancer is a prominent cause of death globally. Currently, many drugs that are in clinical practice are having a high prevalence of side effect and multidrug resistance. Risk of tumors acquiring resistance to chemotherapy (multidrug resistance) remains a significant hurdle to the successful treatment of various types of cancer. Membrane-embedded drug transporters, generally overexpressed in cancer, are the leading cause among multiple mechanisms of multidrug resistance (MDR). P-glycoprotein (P-gp) also MDR1/ABCB1, multidrug resistance associated protein 1 (MRP1/ABCC1), MRP2 and breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP/ABCG2) are considered to be a prime factor for induction of MDR. To date, several chemical substances have been tested in a number of clinical trials for their MDR modulatory activity which are not having devoid of any side effects that necessitates to find newer and safer way to tackle the current problem of multidrug resistance in cancer. The present study systematically discusses the various classes of natural products i.e flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids, coumarins (from plants, marine, and microorganisms) as potential MDR modulators and/or as a source of promising lead compounds. Recently a bisbenzyl isoquinoline alkaloid namely tetrandrine, isolated from Chinese herb Stephania tetrandra (Han-Fang-Chi) is in clinical trials for its MDR reversal activity.
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- Amit Kumar
- Laboratory of Natural Products, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Mansa Road, Bathinda, 151001, India
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- Laboratory of Natural Products, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Natural Products, Central University of Punjab, Mansa Road, Bathinda, 151001, India.
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Chen J, Bai X, Hua Y, Zhang H, Wang H. Fusariumins C and D, two novel antimicrobial agents from Fusarium oxysporum ZZP-R1 symbiotic on Rumex madaio Makino. Fitoterapia 2019; 134:1-4. [PMID: 30708045 DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2019.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Bioassay-guided fractionation of the crude extract of fermentation broth of one symbiotic strain Fusarium oxysporum ZZP-R1 derived from coastal plant Rumex madaio Makino, one traditional Chinese medicine used as a treatment of inflammation and toxication, yielded two novel compounds, fusariumins C (1) and D (2). Chemical structures of 1 and 2 were respectively determined as one meroterpene with cyclohexanone moiety and a sesquiterpene ester with a conjugated triene and an unusual oxetene ring by a combination of spectroscopic methods, including 1D and 2D NMR, mass spectrometry, and optical rotation analysis, as well as by comparison with literature data. Bioassay results indicated that compound 1 displayed potent activity against Staphyloccocus aureus with an MIC value of 6.25 μM, and compound 2 had a moderate inhibitory effect on S. aureus with an MIC value of 25.0 μM. It was the first report that phytochemical investigation of Fusarium strain from R. madaio Makino led to isolation of new antimicrobial agents.
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- Jianwei Chen
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Life and Envrionmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
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Resende DISP, Boonpothong P, Sousa E, Kijjoa A, Pinto MMM. Chemistry of the fumiquinazolines and structurally related alkaloids. Nat Prod Rep 2019; 36:7-34. [DOI: 10.1039/c8np00043c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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This review covers the isolation, structure elucidation, biological activities, biosynthetic pathways, and synthetic studies of the 77 fumiquinazolines and structurally related alkaloids described up to 2018.
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- Diana I. S. P. Resende
- Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Porto
- 4050-313 Porto
- Portugal
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- Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Porto
- 4050-313 Porto
- Portugal
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- Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Porto
- 4050-313 Porto
- Portugal
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- Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR)
- Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões
- Matosinhos
- Portugal
- ICBAS-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
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- Laboratory of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- University of Porto
- 4050-313 Porto
- Portugal
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Cosoveanu A, Cabrera R. Endophytic Fungi in Species of Artemisia. J Fungi (Basel) 2018; 4:jof4020053. [PMID: 29724011 PMCID: PMC6023322 DOI: 10.3390/jof4020053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 04/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/28/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The genus Artemisia, a collection of ~400 hardy herbaceous plant and shrub species, is an important resource contributing to chemistry, medicine, agriculture, industry, and ecology. Its communities of endophytic fungi have only recently begun to be explored. Summarized from studies conducted on the fungal endophytes in Artemisia species, both fungal phylogenetic diversity and the associated bioactivity was examined. Isolations from 14 species of Artemisia have led to 51 genera of fungal endophytes, 28 families, and 18 orders. Endophytes belonged mainly to Ascomycota, except for two taxa of Cantharellales and Sporidiobolales, one taxon of Mucoromycota, and one species of Oomycota. The mostly common families were Pleosporaceae, Trichocomaceae, Leptosphaeriaceae, and Botryosphaeriaceae (relative abundance = 14.89, 8.51, 7.14 and 6.38, respectively). In the search for bioactive metabolites, 27 novel compounds were characterized and 22 metabolites were isolated between 2006 and 2017. The first study on endophytic fungi isolated from species of Artemisia was published but 18 years ago. This summary of recently acquired data illustrates the considerable diversity of biological purposes addressed by fungal endophytes of Artemisia spp.
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- Andreea Cosoveanu
- Facultad de Ciencias-Sección Biología, Dept. Botanica, Ecologia & Fisiologia Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna, Apdo. 456, 38200 La Laguna, Spain.
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- Facultad de Ciencias-Sección Biología, Dept. Botanica, Ecologia & Fisiologia Vegetal, Universidad de La Laguna, Apdo. 456, 38200 La Laguna, Spain.
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Tawfike AF, Tate R, Abbott G, Young L, Viegelmann C, Schumacher M, Diederich M, Edrada-Ebel R. Metabolomic Tools to Assess the Chemistry and Bioactivity of EndophyticAspergillusStrain. Chem Biodivers 2017; 14. [DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201700040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Ahmed F. Tawfike
- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
- Department of Pharmacognosy; Faculty of Pharmacy; Helwan University; Cairo Egypt
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer; Fondation de Recherche Cancer et Sang; Hopital Kirchberg; 9 rue Edward Steichen 2540 Luxembourg City Luxembourg
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire du Cancer; Fondation de Recherche Cancer et Sang; Hopital Kirchberg; 9 rue Edward Steichen 2540 Luxembourg City Luxembourg
- Department of Pharmacy; College of Pharmacy; Seoul National University; 1 Gwanak-ro Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826 Korea
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- Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences; University of Strathclyde; The John Arbuthnott Building, 161 Cathedral Street Glasgow G4 0NR UK
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Joshi P, Vishwakarma RA, Bharate SB. Natural alkaloids as P-gp inhibitors for multidrug resistance reversal in cancer. Eur J Med Chem 2017; 138:273-292. [PMID: 28675836 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.06.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 06/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The biggest challenge associated with cancer chemotherapy is the development of cross multi-drug resistance to almost all anti-cancer agents upon chronic treatment. The major contributing factor for this resistance is efflux of the drugs by the p-glycoprotein pump. Over the years, inhibitors of this pump have been discovered to administer them in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. The clinical failure of first and second generation P-gp inhibitors (such as verapamil and cyclosporine analogs) has led to the discovery of third generation potent P-gp inhibitors (tariquidar, zosuquidar, laniquidar). Most of these inhibitors are nitrogenous compounds and recently a natural alkaloid CBT-01® (tetrandrine) has advanced to the clinical phase. CBT-01 demonstrated positive results in Phase-I study in combination with paclitaxel, which warranted conducting it's Phase II/III trial. Apart from this, there exist a large number of natural alkaloids possessing potent inhibition of P-gp efflux pump and other related pumps responsible for the development of resistance. Despite the extensive contribution of alkaloids in this area, has never been reviewed. The present review provides a comprehensive account on natural alkaloids possessing P-gp inhibition activity and their potential for multidrug resistance reversal in cancer.
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- Prashant Joshi
- Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India; Academy and Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India
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- Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India; Academy and Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India
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- Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India; Academy and Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR - Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu 180001, India.
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Mai P, Zocher G, Ludwig L, Stehle T, Li SM. Actions of Tryptophan Prenyltransferases Toward Fumiquinazolines and their Potential Application for the Generation of Prenylated Derivatives by Combining Chemical and Chemoenzymatic Syntheses. Adv Synth Catal 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201600064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Frisvad JC, Larsen TO. Extrolites of Aspergillus fumigatus and Other Pathogenic Species in Aspergillus Section Fumigati. Front Microbiol 2016; 6:1485. [PMID: 26779142 PMCID: PMC4703822 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aspergillus fumigatus is an important opportunistic human pathogen known for its production of a large array of extrolites. Up to 63 species have been described in Aspergillus section Fumigati, some of which have also been reliably reported to be pathogenic, including A. felis, A. fischeri, A. fumigatiaffinis, A. fumisynnematus, A. hiratsukae, A. laciniosus, A. lentulus, A. novofumigatus, A. parafelis, A. pseudofelis, A. pseudoviridinutans, A. spinosus, A. thermomutatus, and A. udagawae. These species share the production of hydrophobins, melanins, and siderophores and ability to grow well at 37°C, but they only share some small molecule extrolites, that could be important factors in pathogenicity. According to the literature gliotoxin and other exometabolites can be contributing factors to pathogenicity, but these exometabolites are apparently not produced by all pathogenic species. It is our hypothesis that species unable to produce some of these metabolites can produce proxy-exometabolites that may serve the same function. We tabulate all exometabolites reported from species in Aspergillus section Fumigati and by comparing the profile of those extrolites, suggest that those producing many different kinds of exometabolites are potential opportunistic pathogens. The exometabolite data also suggest that the profile of exometabolites are highly specific and can be used for identification of these closely related species.
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- Jens C. Frisvad
- Section of Eukaryotic Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of DenmarkKongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Kshirsagar UA. Recent developments in the chemistry of quinazolinone alkaloids. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 13:9336-52. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ob01379h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This review focuses on the recent advances in the chemistry of quinazolinone alkaloids which covers the newly isolated quinazolinone alkaloids with their biological activities and the recently reported total syntheses of quinazolinone alkaloids from 2006 to 2015.
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- U. A. Kshirsagar
- Department of Chemistry
- Savitribai Phule Pune University (Formerly: University of Pune)
- Pune 411007
- India
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