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Larghi EL, Bracca ABJ, Simonetti SO, Kaufman TS. Recent developments in the total synthesis of natural products using the Ugi multicomponent reactions as the key strategy. Org Biomol Chem 2024; 22:429-465. [PMID: 38126459 DOI: 10.1039/d3ob01837g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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The total syntheses of selected natural products using different versions of the Ugi multicomponent reaction is reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The revision covers the period 2008-2023 and includes detailed descriptions of the synthetic sequences, the use of state-of-the-art chemical reagents and strategies, as well as the advantages and limitations of the transformation and some remedial solutions. Relevant data on the isolation and bioactivity of the different natural targets are also briefly provided. The examples clearly evidence the strategic importance of this transformation and its key role in the modern natural products synthetic chemistry toolbox. This methodology proved to be a valuable means for easily building molecular complexity and efficiently delivering step-economic syntheses even of intricate structures, with a promising future.
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- Enrique L Larghi
- Instituto de Química Rosario (IQUIR, CONICET-UNR) and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531 (2000), Rosario, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Química Rosario (IQUIR, CONICET-UNR) and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531 (2000), Rosario, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Química Rosario (IQUIR, CONICET-UNR) and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531 (2000), Rosario, Argentina.
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- Instituto de Química Rosario (IQUIR, CONICET-UNR) and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531 (2000), Rosario, Argentina.
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Gurushankar K, Rimac H, Nadezhda P, Grishina M. Exploring the potential and identifying Withania somnifera alkaloids as novel dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitors by the AlteQ method. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2023; 41:13963-13976. [PMID: 36762693 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2023.2175727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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There is an urgent need to discover and develop novel drugs to combat Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) in humans. Alkaloids have been shown to have wide-ranging therapeutic application and could be ideal candidates for drug development, and research is underway to develop new anti-tubercular drugs from natural sources. In this regard, the current research deals with finding novel lead compounds from the Withania somnifera (WS) plant. Broad health benefits of WS are due to the presence of diverse chemical constituents which include anaferine and anahygrine and which belong to the alkaloid family. In the present study, these two compounds have been theoretically studied to understand their electronic properties using the density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-311 + G (d,p) level. HOMO and LUMO properties and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) surface were calculated. Further, to understand the mechanism of action of these compounds and to identify their putative drug target, molecular docking and dynamics studies were employed against Mycobacterium tuberculosis dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR). It was determined that NADP+ affects stability of the complexes by reducing fluctuations of residues 14-23 and 117-126. It was also found that Ile5 and Gln28 play an important role in complexation. Electron density analysis (using the AlteQ method) of the intermolecular region, analyzing both the anaferin-NADP+ and anahygrin-NADP+ complexes showed that anaferin and anahygrin complexes are more stable in the presence of NADP+. It has been established that in most intermolecular contacts the contribution of the ligand to the electron density is greater than that of NADP+. The present study thus provides an excellent way to analyze the effect of anaferine and anahygrine in essential processes of M. tuberculosis.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Krishnamoorthy Gurushankar
- Laboratory of Computational Modeling of Drugs, Higher Medical and Biological School, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
- Department of Physics, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Krishnankoil, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Laboratory of Computational Modeling of Drugs, Higher Medical and Biological School, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Computational Modeling of Drugs, Higher Medical and Biological School, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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Negm WA, Ezzat SM, Zayed A. Marine organisms as potential sources of natural products for the prevention and treatment of malaria. RSC Adv 2023; 13:4436-4475. [PMID: 36760290 PMCID: PMC9892989 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra07977a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are a worldwide critical concern accounting for 17% of the estimated global burden of all infectious diseases in 2020. Despite the various medicines available for the management, the deadliest VBD malaria, caused by Plasmodium sp., has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in sub-Saharan Africa only. This finding may be explained by the progressive loss of antimalarial medication efficacy, inherent toxicity, the rise of drug resistance, or a lack of treatment adherence. As a result, new drug discoveries from uncommon sources are desperately needed, especially against multi-drug resistant strains. Marine organisms have been investigated, including sponges, soft corals, algae, and cyanobacteria. They have been shown to produce many bioactive compounds that potentially affect the causative organism at different stages of its life cycle, including the chloroquine (CQ)-resistant strains of P. falciparum. These compounds also showed diverse chemical structures belonging to various phytochemical classes, including alkaloids, terpenoids, polyketides, macrolides, and others. The current article presents a comprehensive review of marine-derived natural products with antimalarial activity as potential candidates for targeting different stages and species of Plasmodium in both in vitro and in vivo and in comparison with the commercially available and terrestrial plant-derived products, i.e., quinine and artemisinin.
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- Walaa A Negm
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Tanta University, College of Pharmacy El-Guish Street Tanta 31527 Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University Kasr El-Aini Street Cairo 11562 Egypt
- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) Giza 12451 Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Tanta University, College of Pharmacy El-Guish Street Tanta 31527 Egypt
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Fisher JF, Mobashery S. β-Lactams from the Ocean. Mar Drugs 2023; 21:86. [PMID: 36827127 PMCID: PMC9963991 DOI: 10.3390/md21020086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The title of this essay is as much a question as it is a statement. The discovery of the β-lactam antibiotics-including penicillins, cephalosporins, and carbapenems-as largely (if not exclusively) secondary metabolites of terrestrial fungi and bacteria, transformed modern medicine. The antibiotic β-lactams inactivate essential enzymes of bacterial cell-wall biosynthesis. Moreover, the ability of the β-lactams to function as enzyme inhibitors is of such great medical value, that inhibitors of the enzymes which degrade hydrolytically the β-lactams, the β-lactamases, have equal value. Given this privileged status for the β-lactam ring, it is therefore a disappointment that the exemplification of this ring in marine secondary metabolites is sparse. It may be that biologically active marine β-lactams are there, and simply have yet to be encountered. In this report, we posit a second explanation: that the value of the β-lactam to secure an ecological advantage in the marine environment might be compromised by its close structural similarity to the β-lactones of quorum sensing. The steric and reactivity similarities between the β-lactams and the β-lactones represent an outside-of-the-box opportunity for correlating new structures and new enzyme targets for the discovery of compelling biological activities.
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- Jed F Fisher
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 354 McCourtney Hall, University of Note Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656-5670, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, 354 McCourtney Hall, University of Note Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656-5670, USA
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Hong LL, Ding YF, Zhang W, Lin HW. Chemical and biological diversity of new natural products from marine sponges: a review (2009-2018). MARINE LIFE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2022; 4:356-372. [PMID: 37073163 PMCID: PMC10077299 DOI: 10.1007/s42995-022-00132-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Marine sponges are productive sources of bioactive secondary metabolites with over 200 new compounds isolated each year, contributing 23% of approved marine drugs so far. This review describes statistical research, structural diversity, and pharmacological activity of sponge derived new natural products from 2009 to 2018. Approximately 2762 new metabolites have been reported from 180 genera of sponges this decade, of which the main structural types are alkaloids and terpenoids, accounting for 50% of the total. More than half of new molecules showed biological activities including cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, enzyme inhibition, and antimalarial activities. As summarized in this review, macrolides and peptides had higher proportions of new bioactive compounds in new compounds than other chemical classes. Every chemical class displayed cytotoxicity as the dominant activity. Alkaloids were the major contributors to antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidant activities while steroids were primarily responsible for pest resistance activity. Alkaloids, terpenoids, and steroids displayed the most diverse biological activities. The statistic research of new compounds by published year, chemical class, sponge taxonomy, and biological activity are presented. Structural novelty and significant bioactivities of some representative compounds are highlighted. Marine sponges are rich sources of novel bioactive compounds and serve as animal hosts for microorganisms, highlighting the undisputed potential of sponges in the marine drugs research and development. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-022-00132-3.
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- Li-Li Hong
- Research Center for Marine Drugs, State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127 China
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127 China
- School of Food and Pharmacy, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, 316000 China
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- Centre for Marine Bioproducts Development, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042 Australia
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- Research Center for Marine Drugs, State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Department of Pharmacy, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200127 China
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Esposito R, Federico S, Bertolino M, Zupo V, Costantini M. Marine Demospongiae: A Challenging Treasure of Bioactive Compounds. Mar Drugs 2022; 20:244. [PMID: 35447918 PMCID: PMC9032870 DOI: 10.3390/md20040244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In the last decades, it has been demonstrated that marine organisms are a substantial source of bioactive compounds with possible biotechnological applications. Marine sponges, in particular those belonging to the class of Demospongiae, have been considered among the most interesting invertebrates for their biotechnological potential. In this review, particular attention is devoted to natural compounds/extracts isolated from Demospongiae and their associated microorganisms with important biological activities for pharmacological applications such as antiviral, anticancer, antifouling, antimicrobial, antiplasmodial, antifungal and antioxidant. The data here presented show that this class of sponges is an exciting source of compounds, which are worth developing into new drugs, such as avarol, a hydroquinone isolated from the marine sponge Disidea avara, which is used as an antitumor, antimicrobial and antiviral drug.
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- Roberta Esposito
- Department of Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy; (R.E.); (S.F.)
- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Cin-thia 21, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy; (R.E.); (S.F.)
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- Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences (DISTAV), Università degli Studi di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy;
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- Department of Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy; (R.E.); (S.F.)
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- Department of Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy; (R.E.); (S.F.)
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Hai Y, Cai ZM, Li PJ, Wei MY, Wang CY, Gu YC, Shao CL. Trends of antimalarial marine natural products: progresses, challenges and opportunities. Nat Prod Rep 2022; 39:969-990. [DOI: 10.1039/d1np00075f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This review provides an overview of the antimalarial marine natural products, focusing on their chemistry, malaria-related targets and mechanisms, and highlighting their potential for drug development.
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- Yang Hai
- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Syngenta Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, The Ministry of Education of China, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China
- Laboratory for Marine Drugs and Bioproducts, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, 266237, China
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Mostafa O, Al-Shehri M, Moustafa M. Promising antiparasitic agents from marine sponges. Saudi J Biol Sci 2022; 29:217-227. [PMID: 35002412 PMCID: PMC8716901 DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2021.08.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Parasitic diseases especially those prevail in tropical and subtropical regions severely threaten the lives of people due to available drugs found to be ineffective as several resistant strains have been emerged. Due to the complexity of the marine environment, researchers considered it as a new field to search for compounds with therapeutic efficacy, marine sponges represents the milestone in the discovery of unique compounds of potent activities against parasitic infections. In the present article, literatures published from 2010 until March 2021 were screened to review antiparasitic potency of bioactive compounds extracted from marine sponges. 45 different genera of sponges have been studied for their antiparasitic activities. The antiparasitic activity of the crude extract or the compounds that have been isolated from marine sponges were assayed in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum, P. berghei, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, T. b. brucei, T. cruzi, Leishmania donovani, L. tropica, L. infantum, L. amazonesis, L. major, L. panamesis, Haemonchus contortus and Schistosoma mansoni. The majority of antiparastic compounds extracted from marine sponges were related to alkaloids and peroxides represent the second important group of antiparasitic compounds extracted from sponges followed by terpenoids. Some substances have been extracted and used as antiparasitic agents to a lesser extent like steroids, amino acids, lipids, polysaccharides and isonitriles. The activities of these isolated compounds against parasites were screened using in vitro techniques. Compounds' potent activity in screened papers was classified in three categories according to IC50: low active or inactive, moderately active and good potent active.
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- Osama Mostafa
- Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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Tempone AG, Pieper P, Borborema SET, Thevenard F, Lago JHG, Croft SL, Anderson EA. Marine alkaloids as bioactive agents against protozoal neglected tropical diseases and malaria. Nat Prod Rep 2021; 38:2214-2235. [PMID: 34913053 PMCID: PMC8672869 DOI: 10.1039/d0np00078g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Covering: 2000 up to 2021Natural products are an important resource in drug discovery, directly or indirectly delivering numerous small molecules for potential development as human medicines. Among the many classes of natural products, alkaloids have a rich history of therapeutic applications. The extensive chemodiversity of alkaloids found in the marine environment has attracted considerable attention for such uses, while the scarcity of these natural materials has stimulated efforts towards their total synthesis. This review focuses on the biological activity of marine alkaloids (covering 2000 to up to 2021) towards Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) caused by protozoan parasites, and malaria. Chemotherapy represents the only form of treatment for Chagas disease, human African trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis and malaria, but there is currently a restricted arsenal of drugs, which often elicit severe adverse effects, show variable efficacy or resistance, or are costly. Natural product scaffolds have re-emerged as a focus of academic drug discovery programmes, offering a different resource to discover new chemical entities with new modes of action. In this review, the potential of a range of marine alkaloids is analyzed, accompanied by coverage of synthetic efforts that enable further studies of key antiprotozoal natural product scaffolds.
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- Andre G Tempone
- Centre for Parasitology and Mycology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, 01246-000, Brazil.
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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- Centre for Parasitology and Mycology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, 01246-000, Brazil.
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- Centre of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Federal University of ABC, Sao Paulo, 09210-580, Brazil
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- Centre of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Federal University of ABC, Sao Paulo, 09210-580, Brazil
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- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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Massarotti A, Brunelli F, Aprile S, Giustiniano M, Tron GC. Medicinal Chemistry of Isocyanides. Chem Rev 2021; 121:10742-10788. [PMID: 34197077 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In eons of evolution, isocyanides carved out a niche in the ecological systems probably thanks to their metal coordinating properties. In 1859 the first isocyanide was synthesized by humans and in 1950 the first natural isocyanide was discovered. Now, at the beginning of XXI century, hundreds of isocyanides have been isolated both in prokaryotes and eukaryotes and thousands have been synthesized in the laboratory. For some of them their ecological role is known, and their potent biological activity as antibacterial, antifungal, antimalarial, antifouling, and antitumoral compounds has been described. Notwithstanding, the isocyanides have not gained a good reputation among medicinal chemists who have erroneously considered them either too reactive or metabolically unstable, and this has restricted their main use to technical applications as ligands in coordination chemistry. The aim of this review is therefore to show the richness in biological activity of the isocyanide-containing molecules, to support the idea of using the isocyanide functional group as an unconventional pharmacophore especially useful as a metal coordinating warhead. The unhidden hope is to convince the skeptical medicinal chemists of the isocyanide potential in many areas of drug discovery and considering them in the design of future drugs.
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- Alberto Massarotti
- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Largo Donegani 2, 28100 Novara, Italy
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Shen Y, Liang WJ, Shi YN, Kennelly EJ, Zhao DK. Structural diversity, bioactivities, and biosynthesis of natural diterpenoid alkaloids. Nat Prod Rep 2021; 37:763-796. [PMID: 32129397 DOI: 10.1039/d0np00002g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Covering: 2009 to 2018. Diterpenoid alkaloids, originating from the amination of natural tetracyclic diterpenes, are a diverse class of compounds having complex structural features with many stereocenters. The important pharmacological activities and structural complexity of the diterpenoid alkaloids have long interested scientists due to their medicinal uses, infamous toxicity, and unique biosynthesis. Since 2009, 373 diterpenoid alkaloids, assigned to 46 skeletons, have been isolated and identified from plants mostly in the Ranunculaceae family. The names, classes, molecular weight, molecular formula, NMR data, and plant sources of these diterpene alkaloids are collated here. This review will be a detailed update of the naturally occurring diterpene alkaloids reported from the plant kingdom from 2009-2018, providing an in-depth discussion of their diversity, biological activities, pharmacokinetics, toxicity, application, evolution, and biosynthesis.
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- Yong Shen
- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, P. R. China and Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China. and Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China and School of Life Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China and Kunming Kangren Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Kunming, 650203, P. R. China and Research & Development Center for Functional Products, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, P. R. China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, P. R. China
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- College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, P. R. China and Institute of Medicinal Plants, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, 650000, P. R. China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, 10468, USA. and Ph.D. Programs in Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, 10016, USA
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- Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Plant Disease and Pest, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China. and Biocontrol Engineering Research Center of Crop Disease and Pest, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China and School of Life Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, P. R. China and Kunming Kangren Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Kunming, 650203, P. R. China
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Galitz A, Nakao Y, Schupp PJ, Wörheide G, Erpenbeck D. A Soft Spot for Chemistry-Current Taxonomic and Evolutionary Implications of Sponge Secondary Metabolite Distribution. Mar Drugs 2021; 19:448. [PMID: 34436287 PMCID: PMC8398655 DOI: 10.3390/md19080448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Marine sponges are the most prolific marine sources for discovery of novel bioactive compounds. Sponge secondary metabolites are sought-after for their potential in pharmaceutical applications, and in the past, they were also used as taxonomic markers alongside the difficult and homoplasy-prone sponge morphology for species delineation (chemotaxonomy). The understanding of phylogenetic distribution and distinctiveness of metabolites to sponge lineages is pivotal to reveal pathways and evolution of compound production in sponges. This benefits the discovery rate and yield of bioprospecting for novel marine natural products by identifying lineages with high potential of being new sources of valuable sponge compounds. In this review, we summarize the current biochemical data on sponges and compare the metabolite distribution against a sponge phylogeny. We assess compound specificity to lineages, potential convergences, and suitability as diagnostic phylogenetic markers. Our study finds compound distribution corroborating current (molecular) phylogenetic hypotheses, which include yet unaccepted polyphyly of several demosponge orders and families. Likewise, several compounds and compound groups display a high degree of lineage specificity, which suggests homologous biosynthetic pathways among their taxa, which identifies yet unstudied species of this lineage as promising bioprospecting targets.
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- Adrian Galitz
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany; (A.G.); (G.W.)
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan;
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, 26111 Wilhelmshaven, Germany;
- Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany; (A.G.); (G.W.)
- GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany
- SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Palaeontology and Geology, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany; (A.G.); (G.W.)
- GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80333 Munich, Germany
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Tandi M, Sundriyal S. Recent trends in the design of antimicrobial agents using Ugi-multicomponent reaction. J INDIAN CHEM SOC 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2021.100106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Aguiar ACC, Parisi JR, Granito RN, de Sousa LRF, Renno ACM, Gazarini ML. Metabolites from Marine Sponges and Their Potential to Treat Malarial Protozoan Parasites Infection: A Systematic Review. Mar Drugs 2021; 19:134. [PMID: 33670878 PMCID: PMC7997450 DOI: 10.3390/md19030134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Plasmodium genus through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, affecting 228 million people and causing 415 thousand deaths in 2018. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the most recommended treatment for malaria; however, the emergence of multidrug resistance has unfortunately limited their effects and challenged the field. In this context, the ocean and its rich biodiversity have emerged as a very promising resource of bioactive compounds and secondary metabolites from different marine organisms. This systematic review of the literature focuses on the advances achieved in the search for new antimalarials from marine sponges, which are ancient organisms that developed defense mechanisms in a hostile environment. The principal inclusion criterion for analysis was articles with compounds with IC50 below 10 µM or 10 µg/mL against P. falciparum culture. The secondary metabolites identified include alkaloids, terpenoids, polyketides endoperoxides and glycosphingolipids. The structural features of active compounds selected in this review may be an interesting scaffold to inspire synthetic development of new antimalarials for selectively targeting parasite cell metabolism.
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- Anna Caroline Campos Aguiar
- Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Silva Jardim 136, Santos 11015-020, SP, Brazil; (A.C.C.A.); (J.R.P.); (R.N.G.); (A.C.M.R.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Silva Jardim 136, Santos 11015-020, SP, Brazil; (A.C.C.A.); (J.R.P.); (R.N.G.); (A.C.M.R.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Silva Jardim 136, Santos 11015-020, SP, Brazil; (A.C.C.A.); (J.R.P.); (R.N.G.); (A.C.M.R.)
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- Special Academic Unit of Chemistry, Federal University of Goiás (UFG/UFCAT), Catalão Regional, Catalão 75704-020, GO, Brazil;
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- Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Silva Jardim 136, Santos 11015-020, SP, Brazil; (A.C.C.A.); (J.R.P.); (R.N.G.); (A.C.M.R.)
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- Department of Biosciences, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Silva Jardim 136, Santos 11015-020, SP, Brazil; (A.C.C.A.); (J.R.P.); (R.N.G.); (A.C.M.R.)
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Flores-Reyes JC, Islas-Jácome A, González-Zamora E. The Ugi three-component reaction and its variants. Org Chem Front 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1qo00313e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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A broad variety of α-aminoamide-based compounds have been synthesized via the three-component version of the Ugi reaction (U-3CR) or by any of its variants (Ugi-Zhu-3CR, Orru-3CR, Ugi-4C-3CR, Ugi-Joullié-3CR, GBB-3CR, Ugi-Reissert-3CR, and so on).
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- Julio César Flores-Reyes
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, Iztapalapa, C.P. 09340, Ciudad de Mexico
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, Iztapalapa, C.P. 09340, Ciudad de Mexico
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, Iztapalapa, C.P. 09340, Ciudad de Mexico
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Thakur S, Das A, Das T. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones: synthesis of multisubstituted, diverse range of heterocyclic compounds. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj02023d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of nitrone is one of the most important methods for the synthesis of different sizes of heterocycles which have enormous applications in natural products, biologically active molecules and pharmaceuticals.
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- Seema Thakur
- Department of Chemistry
- NIT Jamshedpur
- Jamshedpur 831014
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- NIT Jamshedpur
- Jamshedpur 831014
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- NIT Jamshedpur
- Jamshedpur 831014
- India
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AbstractLactams are very important heterocycles as a result of their presence in a wide range of bioactive molecules, natural products and drugs, and also due their utility as versatile synthetic intermediates. Due to these reasons, numerous efforts have focused on the development of effective and efficient methods for their synthesis. Compared to conventional two-component reactions, multicomponent reactions (MCRs), particularly isocyanide-based MCRs, are widely used for the synthesis of a range of small heterocycles including lactam analogues. Despite their numerous applications in almost every field of chemistry, as yet there is no dedicated review on isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions (IMCRs) concerning the synthesis of lactams. Therefore, this review presents strategies towards the synthesis of α-, β-, γ-, δ- and ε-lactams using IMCRs or IMCRs/post-transformation reactions reported in the literature between 2000 and 2020.1 Introduction2 Developments in Lactam Synthesis2.1 α-Lactams2.2 β-Lactams2.3 γ-Lactams2.3.1 General γ-Lactams2.3.2 Benzo-Fused γ-Lactams2.3.3 Spiro γ-Lactams2.3.4 α,β-Unsaturated γ-Lactams2.3.5 Polycyclic Fused γ-Lactams2.4 δ-Lactams2.5 ε-Lactams3 Conclusions
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Oliveira V, Polónia ARM, Cleary DFR, Huang YM, de Voogd NJ, da Rocha UN, Gomes NCM. Characterization of putative circular plasmids in sponge-associated bacterial communities using a selective multiply-primed rolling circle amplification. Mol Ecol Resour 2020; 21:110-121. [PMID: 32866335 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Plasmid transfers among bacterial populations can directly influence the ecological adaptation of these populations and their interactions with host species and environment. In this study, we developed a selective multiply-primed rolling circle amplification (smRCA) approach to enrich and characterize circular plasmid DNA from sponge microbial symbionts via high-throughput sequencing (HTS). DNA (plasmid and total community DNA) obtained from sponge (Cinachyrella sp.) samples and a bacterial symbiont (Vibrio sp. CyArs1) isolated from the same sponge species (carrying unknown plasmids) were used to develop and validate our methodology. The smRCA was performed during 16 hr with 141 plasmid-specific primers covering all known circular plasmid groups. The amplified products were purified and subjected to a reamplification with random hexamer primers (2 hr) and then sequenced using Illumina MiSeq. The developed method resulted in the successful amplification and characterization of the sponge plasmidome and allowed us to detect plasmids associated with the bacterial symbiont Vibrio sp. CyArs1 in the sponge host. In addition to this, a large number of small (<2 kbp) and cryptic plasmids were also amplified in sponge samples. Functional analysis identified proteins involved in the control of plasmid partitioning, maintenance and replication. However, most plasmids contained unknown genes, which could potentially serve as a resource of unknown genetic information and novel replication systems. Overall, our results indicate that the smRCA-HTS approach developed here was able to selectively enrich and characterize plasmids from bacterial isolates and sponge host microbial communities, including plasmids larger than 20 kbp.
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- Vanessa Oliveira
- Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Tropical Island Sustainable Development Research Center, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Magong City Penghu, Taiwan.,Department of Marine Recreation, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Magong City Penghu, Taiwan
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- Marine Biodiversity, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.,Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology and Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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Veena KS, Taniya MS, Ravindran J, Thangarasu AK, Priya S, Lankalapalli RS. Semi-synthetic diversification of coronarin D, a labdane diterpene, under Ugi reaction conditions. Nat Prod Res 2020; 36:334-340. [PMID: 32586133 DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2020.1782406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The prevalence of 5-hydroxydihydrofuran-2(3H)-one moiety in natural products is exploited for the first time using coronarin D, a labdane diterpene, to afford Ugi reaction product 1a and interrupted Ugi product 2a. The potential of the Ugi reaction was further extended to l-phenylalanine, 2-aminopyridine, and d-glucosamine, which afforded Ugi reaction products 3a-f, 4, and 5a-d, respectively. Cytotoxicity studies in RAW cells reveal that compounds 3e and 5b were non-toxic up to 50 µM, and these compounds were able to reduce the LPS stimulated NO production in RAW cells in par with the standard anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone.
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- Kollery S Veena
- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.,Agro-Processing and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.,Agro-Processing and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Hosokawa S, Nakanishi K, Udagawa Y, Maeda M, Sato S, Nakano K, Masuda T, Ichikawa Y. Total synthesis of exigurin: the Ugi reaction in a hypothetical biosynthesis of natural products. Org Biomol Chem 2020; 18:687-693. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02249j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Bioinspired U-5C-4CR employing (−)-10-epi-axisonitrile-3, formaldehyde and sarcosine in methanol showed remarkable efficiency to assemble multicomponents in a one-pot process, leading to the first total synthesis of exigurin.
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- Seijiro Hosokawa
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering
- Waseda University
- Tokyo 169-8555
- Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering
- Waseda University
- Tokyo 169-8555
- Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering
- Waseda University
- Tokyo 169-8555
- Japan
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- Faculty of Science
- Kochi University
- Kochi 780-8520
- Japan
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- Faculty of Science
- Kochi University
- Kochi 780-8520
- Japan
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- Graduate School of Human Life Science
- Osaka City University
- Osaka 558–8585
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Kurhekar JV. Antimicrobial lead compounds from marine plants. PHYTOCHEMICALS AS LEAD COMPOUNDS FOR NEW DRUG DISCOVERY 2020. [PMCID: PMC7153345 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-817890-4.00017-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Marine environment is a home to a very wide diversity of flora and fauna, which includes an array of genetically diverse coastline and under seawater plant species, animal species, microbial species, their habitats, ecosystems, and supporting ecological processes. The Earth is home to an estimated 10 million species, of which a large chunk belongs to marine environment. Marine plants are a store house of a variety of antimicrobial compounds like classes of marine flavonoids—flavones and flavonols, terpenoids, alkaloids, peptides, carbohydrates, fatty acids, polyketides, polysaccharides, phenolic compounds, and steroids. Lot of research today is directed toward marine species, which have proved to be a potent source of structurally widely diverse and yet highly bioactive secondary metabolites. Varied species of phylum Porifera, algae including diatoms, Chlorophyta, Euglenophyta, Dinoflagellata, Chrysophyta, cyanobacteria, Rhodophyta, and Phaeophyta, bacteria, fungi, and weeds have been exploited by mankind for their inherent indigenous biological antimicrobial compounds, produced under the extreme stressful underwater conditions of temperature, atmospheric pressure, light, and nutrition. The present study aims at presenting a brief review of bioactive marine compounds possessing antimicrobial potency.
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Tajuddeen N, Van Heerden FR. Antiplasmodial natural products: an update. Malar J 2019; 18:404. [PMID: 31805944 PMCID: PMC6896759 DOI: 10.1186/s12936-019-3026-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Malaria remains a significant public health challenge in regions of the world where it is endemic. An unprecedented decline in malaria incidences was recorded during the last decade due to the availability of effective control interventions, such as the deployment of artemisinin-based combination therapy and insecticide-treated nets. However, according to the World Health Organization, malaria is staging a comeback, in part due to the development of drug resistance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to discover new anti-malarial drugs. This article reviews the literature on natural products with antiplasmodial activity that was reported between 2010 and 2017. Methods Relevant literature was sourced by searching the major scientific databases, including Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciFinder, Pubmed, and Google Scholar, using appropriate keyword combinations. Results and Discussion A total of 1524 compounds from 397 relevant references, assayed against at least one strain of Plasmodium, were reported in the period under review. Out of these, 39% were described as new natural products, and 29% of the compounds had IC50 ≤ 3.0 µM against at least one strain of Plasmodium. Several of these compounds have the potential to be developed into viable anti-malarial drugs. Also, some of these compounds could play a role in malaria eradication by targeting gametocytes. However, the research into natural products with potential for blocking the transmission of malaria is still in its infancy stage and needs to be vigorously pursued.
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- Nasir Tajuddeen
- School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa.
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Jarrahpour A, Rostami M, Sinou V, Latour C, Djouhri-Bouktab L, Michel Brunel J. Diastereoselective Synthesis of Potent Antimalarial Cis-β-lactam Agents. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH : IJPR 2019; 18:596-606. [PMID: 31531044 PMCID: PMC6706723 DOI: 10.22037/ijpr.2017.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Fifteen novel β-lactams bearing N-ethyl tert-butyl carbamate group 5a-o and fifteen N-(2- aminoethyl) β-lactams 6a-o were synthesized by [2+2] ketene-imine cycloaddition reaction (Staudinger). The cycloaddition reaction was found to be totally diastereoselective leading exclusively to theformation of cis-β-lactam derivatives. These newly synthesized β-lactams were evaluated for their antimalarial activity against p. falciparum K14 resistant strain and showed good to excellent EC50 values. Of the thirty β-lactams tested, 5 h, 6a and 6c showed IC50 < 20 µM while 5b, 5c, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5i, 5j, 6d, 6g and 6h exhibited IC50 <50 . Compounds 5c, 5h, and 5q-t were examined for their anticancer properties against K562 Leukemia cell line and 5s showed the best activity. Compounds 3a-j, 5a-o, 6a-o, were tested against S. aureus , E. coli, C. albicans and showed no activity below 125 µg/mL.
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- Aliasghar Jarrahpour
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, Iran
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- Aix-Marseille Université, UMR-MD3 Relation hôte-parasites, Physiopathologie & Pharmacologie, Faculté de pharmacie, Bd Jean Moulin, F-13385, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, UMR-MD3 Relation hôte-parasites, Physiopathologie & Pharmacologie, Faculté de pharmacie, Bd Jean Moulin, F-13385, Marseille, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), CNRS, UMR7258 ; Institut Paoli Calmettes ; Aix- Marseille Université, UM 105 ; Inserm, U1068, Faculté de pharmacie, Bd Jean Moulin, F-13385, Marseille, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), CNRS, UMR7258 ; Institut Paoli Calmettes ; Aix- Marseille Université, UM 105 ; Inserm, U1068, Faculté de pharmacie, Bd Jean Moulin, F-13385, Marseille, France
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Wei C, Zhu J, Zhang J, Deng Q, Mo D. Synthesis of Spirofluorenyl‐
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‐Aryl Fluorenone Nitrones and Methylenecyclopropanes. Adv Synth Catal 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201900523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Cui Wei
- State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Guangxi Normal University 15 Yu Cai Road Guilin 541004 People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Guangxi Normal University 15 Yu Cai Road Guilin 541004 People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Guangxi Normal University 15 Yu Cai Road Guilin 541004 People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Hunan University of Science and Technology Xiangtan 411201 People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Guangxi Normal University 15 Yu Cai Road Guilin 541004 People's Republic of China
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Sidi Boune MV, Ould Elemine B, Lepitre T, Ould Hadou A, Aliyenne A, Boumediana AI, Daïch A, Othman M, Lawson AM. Development of SECheM Concept for Isolation and Chemical Modification of Gossypol Directly from Cienfuegosia digitata. PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS : PCA 2017; 28:410-415. [PMID: 28474346 DOI: 10.1002/pca.2688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Revised: 03/12/2017] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Gossypol is an axially chiral natural polyphenol classically extracted from the Malavaceae family. Nevertheless, its extraction and isolation from a plant can be quite complicated and extremely time-consuming since gossypol is known to be sensitive to degradation under solvents, high temperature and light action. Moreover, its purification over column chromatography is a challenging problem due to its ability to oxidise and the existence of various tautomer forms. OBJECTIVE To develop an efficient "one-step" strategy for simultaneous extraction and semi-synthesis by short-circuiting critical gossypol isolation and purification steps. METHODOLOGY Gossypol was first isolated from Cienfuegosia digitata roots, characterised (by 1D and 2D NMR) and quantified (by UV spectrophotometry). Thus, aniline was selected to test the "one-step" in situ trapping of freshly extracted gossypol leading to a Schiff base analogue. After screening solvents and extraction times on this model reaction, the "SECheM" (simultaneous extraction and chemical modification) concept was successfully extended to other amines, underlining the efficiency and the robustness of the strategy. RESULTS After having shown that gossypol occurred as a major compound in C. digitata roots, different experimental procedures using Soxhlet extraction in the presence of aniline pointed out the best conditions for the SECheM concept (7 h of reaction and extraction time in ether as solvent). Ultimately, the concept has been generalised to 17 other amines. CONCLUSION This is a report of the first semi-synthesis that allows: (1) "in situ" preparation of more stable gossypol Schiff base derivatives directly from ground plant material and (2) circumvention of gossypol extraction and purification problems. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Mohamed Vall Sidi Boune
- Normandie Université, UNILEHAVRE, URCOM, EA 3221, FR 3038 CNRS, F-76600, Le Havre, France
- Université des Sciences, de Technologies et de Médecine (USTM), UCME, B.P 5026, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
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- Université des Sciences, de Technologies et de Médecine (USTM), UCME, B.P 5026, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
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- Normandie Université, UNILEHAVRE, URCOM, EA 3221, FR 3038 CNRS, F-76600, Le Havre, France
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- Université des Sciences, de Technologies et de Médecine (USTM), UCME, B.P 5026, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
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- Université des Sciences, de Technologies et de Médecine (USTM), UCME, B.P 5026, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
- Département des Sciences Exactes, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Nouakchott, B.P 90 Ksar, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
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- Département des Sciences Exactes, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Nouakchott, B.P 90 Ksar, Nouakchott, Mauritanie
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- Normandie Université, UNILEHAVRE, URCOM, EA 3221, FR 3038 CNRS, F-76600, Le Havre, France
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- Normandie Université, UNILEHAVRE, URCOM, EA 3221, FR 3038 CNRS, F-76600, Le Havre, France
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- Normandie Université, UNILEHAVRE, URCOM, EA 3221, FR 3038 CNRS, F-76600, Le Havre, France
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Mishra SK, Tripathi G, Kishore N, Singh RK, Singh A, Tiwari VK. Drug development against tuberculosis: Impact of alkaloids. Eur J Med Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Li Y, Meng JP, Lei J, Chen ZZ, Tang DY, Zhu J, Zhang J, Xu ZG. Efficient Synthesis of Fused Oxazepino-isoquinoline Scaffolds via an Ugi, Followed by an Intramolecular Cyclization. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2017; 19:324-330. [PMID: 28271876 DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.7b00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A mild and efficient protocol was developed for the synthesis of oxazepino-isoquinolines via a one-pot Ugi four-component reaction, followed by the intramolecular addition of the resulting alcohol to an alkyne moiety under microwave irradiation conditions. Notably, this process only required one purification step, providing facile access to two series of complex and potentially interesting biologically active scaffolds.
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- Yong Li
- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
- Key
Laboratory for Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiral Technology of Sichuan
Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
- Key
Laboratory for Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiral Technology of Sichuan
Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
- Key
Laboratory for Asymmetric Synthesis and Chiral Technology of Sichuan
Province, Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
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- Chongqing
Engineering Laboratory of Targeted and Innovative Therapeutics, Chongqing
Key Laboratory of Kinase Modulators as Innovative Medicine, IATTI, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, 319 Honghe Avenue, Yongchuan, Chongqing 402160, China
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Chan STS, Nani RR, Schauer EA, Martin GE, Williamson RT, Saurí J, Buevich AV, Schafer WA, Joyce LA, Goey AKL, Figg WD, Ransom TT, Henrich CJ, McKee TC, Moser A, MacDonald SA, Khan S, McMahon JB, Schnermann MJ, Gustafson KR. Characterization and Synthesis of Eudistidine C, a Bioactive Marine Alkaloid with an Intriguing Molecular Scaffold. J Org Chem 2016; 81:10631-10640. [PMID: 27934476 PMCID: PMC6350249 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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An extract of Eudistoma sp. provided eudistidine C (1), a heterocyclic alkaloid with a novel molecular framework. Eudistidine C (1) is a racemic natural product composed of a tetracyclic core structure further elaborated with a p-methoxyphenyl group and a phenol-substituted aminoimidazole moiety. This compound presented significant structure elucidation challenges due to the large number of heteroatoms and fully substituted carbons. These issues were mitigated by application of a new NMR pulse sequence (LR-HSQMBC) optimized to detect four- and five-bond heteronuclear correlations and the use of computer-assisted structure elucidation software. Synthesis of eudistidine C (1) was accomplished in high yield by treating eudistidine A (2) with 4(2-amino-1H-imidazol-5-yl)phenol (4) in DMSO. Synthesis of eudistidine C (1) confirmed the proposed structure and provided material for further biological characterization. Treatment of 2 with various nitrogen heterocycles and electron-rich arenes provided a series of analogues (5-10) of eudistidine C. Chiral-phase HPLC resolution of epimeric eudistidine C provided (+)-(R)-eudistidine C (1a) and (-)-(S)-eudistidine C (1b). The absolute configuration of these enantiomers was assigned by ECD analysis. (-)-(S)-Eudistidine C (1b) modestly inhibited interaction between the protein binding domains of HIF-1α and p300. Compounds 1, 2, and 6-10 exhibited significant antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum.
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- Susanna T. S. Chan
- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- NMR Structure Elucidation, Process Research and Development, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey 07065, United States
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- Medical Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Medical Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
- Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Laboratories), Toronto Department, 8 King Street East Suite 107, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1B5, Canada
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- Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Laboratories), Toronto Department, 8 King Street East Suite 107, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1B5, Canada
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- National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Mississippi 38677, United States
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Molecular Targets Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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Versluis D, Rodriguez de Evgrafov M, Sommer MOA, Sipkema D, Smidt H, van Passel MWJ. Sponge Microbiota Are a Reservoir of Functional Antibiotic Resistance Genes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1848. [PMID: 27909433 PMCID: PMC5112248 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Wide application of antibiotics has contributed to the evolution of multi-drug resistant human pathogens, resulting in poorer treatment outcomes for infections. In the marine environment, seawater samples have been investigated as a resistance reservoir; however, no studies have methodically examined sponges as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance. Sponges could be important in this respect because they often contain diverse microbial communities that have the capacity to produce bioactive metabolites. Here, we applied functional metagenomics to study the presence and diversity of functional resistance genes in the sponges Aplysina aerophoba, Petrosia ficiformis, and Corticium candelabrum. We obtained 37 insert sequences facilitating resistance to D-cycloserine (n = 6), gentamicin (n = 1), amikacin (n = 7), trimethoprim (n = 17), chloramphenicol (n = 1), rifampicin (n = 2) and ampicillin (n = 3). Fifteen of 37 inserts harbored resistance genes that shared <90% amino acid identity with known gene products, whereas on 13 inserts no resistance gene could be identified with high confidence, in which case we predicted resistance to be mainly mediated by antibiotic efflux. One marine-specific ampicillin-resistance-conferring β-lactamase was identified in the genus Pseudovibrio with 41% global amino acid identity to the closest β-lactamase with demonstrated functionality, and subsequently classified into a new family termed PSV. Taken together, our results show that sponge microbiota host diverse and novel resistance genes that may be harnessed by phylogenetically distinct bacteria.
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- Dennis Versluis
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark Hørsholm, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen UniversityWageningen, Netherlands; National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentBilthoven, Netherlands
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Anjum K, Abbas SQ, Shah SAA, Akhter N, Batool S, Hassan SSU. Marine Sponges as a Drug Treasure. Biomol Ther (Seoul) 2016; 24:347-62. [PMID: 27350338 PMCID: PMC4930278 DOI: 10.4062/biomolther.2016.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Marine sponges have been considered as a drug treasure house with respect to great potential regarding their secondary metabolites. Most of the studies have been conducted on sponge's derived compounds to examine its pharmacological properties. Such compounds proved to have antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antimalarial, antitumor, immunosuppressive, and cardiovascular activity. Although, the mode of action of many compounds by which they interfere with human pathogenesis have not been clear till now, in this review not only the capability of the medicinal substances have been examined in vitro and in vivo against serious pathogenic microbes but, the mode of actions of medicinal compounds were explained with diagrammatic illustrations. This knowledge is one of the basic components to be known especially for transforming medicinal molecules to medicines. Sponges produce a different kind of chemical substances with numerous carbon skeletons, which have been found to be the main component interfering with human pathogenesis at different sites. The fact that different diseases have the capability to fight at different sites inside the body can increase the chances to produce targeted medicines.
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- Komal Anjum
- Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058,
China
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Gomal University D.I.Khan, K.P.K. 29050,
Pakistan
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- Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058,
China
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg,
Germany
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Nieves K, Prudhomme J, Le Roch KG, Franzblau SG, Rodríguez AD. Natural product-based synthesis of novel anti-infective isothiocyanate- and isoselenocyanate-functionalized amphilectane diterpenes. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2016; 26:854-857. [PMID: 26748697 PMCID: PMC4815908 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.12.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2015] [Revised: 12/20/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The marine natural product (-)-8,15-diisocyano-11(20)-amphilectene (1), isolated from the Caribbean sponge Svenzea flava, was used as scaffold to synthetize five new products, all of which were tested against laboratory strains of Plasmodium falciparum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. The scaffold contains two isocyanide units that are amenable to chemical manipulation, enabling them to be elaborated into a small library of sulfur and selenium compounds. Although most of the analogs prepared were less potent than the parent compound, 5 was nearly equipotent showing IC50 values of 0.0066 μM and 0.0025 μM, respectively, against two strains (Dd2 and 3D7) of the malaria parasite. On the other hand, when assayed against the tuberculosis bacterium, analogs 5 and 6 were found to be more potent than 1.
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- Karinel Nieves
- Molecular Sciences Research Center, University of Puerto Rico, 1390 Ponce de León Avenue, San Juan, PR 00926, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
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- Molecular Sciences Research Center, University of Puerto Rico, 1390 Ponce de León Avenue, San Juan, PR 00926, United States.
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Emsermann J, Kauhl U, Opatz T. Marine Isonitriles and Their Related Compounds. Mar Drugs 2016; 14:16. [PMID: 26784208 PMCID: PMC4728513 DOI: 10.3390/md14010016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2015] [Revised: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Marine isonitriles represent the largest group of natural products carrying the remarkable isocyanide moiety. Together with marine isothiocyanates and formamides, which originate from the same biosynthetic pathways, they offer diverse biological activities and in spite of their exotic nature they may constitute potential lead structures for pharmaceutical development. Among other biological activities, several marine isonitriles show antimalarial, antitubercular, antifouling and antiplasmodial effects. In contrast to terrestrial isonitriles, which are mostly derived from α-amino acids, the vast majority of marine representatives are of terpenoid origin. An overview of all known marine isonitriles and their congeners will be given and their biological and chemical aspects will be discussed.
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- Jens Emsermann
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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Avilés E, Prudhomme J, Le Roch KG, Franzblau SG, Chandrasena K, Mayer AMS, Rodríguez AD. Synthesis and preliminary biological evaluation of a small library of hybrid compounds based on Ugi isocyanide multicomponent reactions with a marine natural product scaffold. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2015; 25:5339-43. [PMID: 26421992 PMCID: PMC4815915 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.09.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Revised: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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A mixture-based combinatorial library of five Ugi adducts (4-8) incorporating known antitubercular and antimalarial pharmacophores was successfully synthesized, starting from the naturally occurring diisocyanide 3, via parallel Ugi four-center three-component reactions (U-4C-3CR). The novel α-acylamino amides obtained were evaluated for their antiinfective potential against laboratory strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and chloroquine-susceptible 3D7 Plasmodium falciparum. Interestingly, compounds 4-8 displayed potent in vitro antiparasitic activity with higher cytotoxicity in comparison to their diisocyanide precursor 3, with the best compound exhibiting an IC50 value of 3.6 nM. Additionally, these natural product inspired hybrids potently inhibited in vitro thromboxane B2 (TXB2) and superoxide anion (O2(-)) generation from Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-activated rat neonatal microglia, with concomitant low short-term toxicity.
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- Edward Avilés
- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, PR 00931-3346, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, CA 92521, United States
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- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, PO Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, PR 00931-3346, United States.
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Yugandhar D, Srivastava AK. Efficient Construction of Azaspiro[4.5]trienone Libraries via Tandem Ugi 4CC/Electrophilic ipso-Iodocyclization in One-Pot. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2015; 17:474-81. [PMID: 26151873 DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A solution-phase parallel synthesis of pharmaceutically important azaspiro[4.5]trienones has been developed by performing tandem Ugi four-component condensation (U4CC), involving substituted p-anisidines, aldehydes, 3-alkyl/aryl-propiolic acids, and isocyanides, and iodine-mediated ipso-iodocyclization in one-pot. This highly atom economical process produced functionalized azaspiro[4.5]trienones in good to excellent overall yields and products were easily isolated by precipitation followed by crystallization. These vinyl-iodide bearing azaspiro[4.5]trienones were utilized for further modifications through Suzuki coupling and deiodination reaction to demonstrate the suitability of these products for various palladium catalyzed modifications. The present method provides an easy access to highly functionalized azaspiro[4.5]trienones that can be useful in drug discovery research.
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- D. Yugandhar
- Medicinal
Chemistry and Pharmacology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad-500007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi-110025, India
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- Medicinal
Chemistry and Pharmacology Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad-500007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi-110025, India
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Schnermann MJ, Shenvi RA. Syntheses and biological studies of marine terpenoids derived from inorganic cyanide. Nat Prod Rep 2015; 32:543-77. [PMID: 25514696 DOI: 10.1039/c4np00109e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Isocyanoterpenes (ICTs) are marine natural products biosynthesized through an unusual pathway that adorns terpene scaffolds with nitrogenous functionality derived from cyanide. The appendage of nitrogen functional groups - isonitriles in particular - onto stereochemically-rich carbocyclic ring systems provides enigmatic, bioactive molecules that have required innovative chemical syntheses. This review discusses the challenges inherent to the synthesis of this diverse family and details the development of the field. We also present recent progress in isolation and discuss key aspects of the remarkable biological activity of these compounds.
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- Martin J Schnermann
- Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
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Hamed I, Özogul F, Özogul Y, Regenstein JM. Marine Bioactive Compounds and Their Health Benefits: A Review. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.12136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Imen Hamed
- Biotechnology Centre; Cukurova Univ; Adana Turkey
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- Dept. of Seafood Processing Technology, Faculty of Fisheries; Cukurova Univ; Adana Turkey
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- Dept. of Seafood Processing Technology, Faculty of Fisheries; Cukurova Univ; Adana Turkey
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Avilés E, Prudhomme J, Le Roch KG, Rodríguez AD. Structures, semisyntheses, and absolute configurations of the antiplasmodial α-substituted β-lactam monamphilectines B and C from the sponge Svenzea flava. Tetrahedron 2015; 71:487-494. [PMID: 26494928 DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2014.11.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bioassay-guided fractionation of the Caribbean sponge Svenzea flava collected near Mona Island, off the west coast of Puerto Rico, led to the isolation of two isocyanide amphilectane-type diterpenes named monamphilectines B and C (2 and 3). Attached to the backbone of each of these compounds is the first α-substituted monocyclic β-lactam ring to be isolated from a marine organism. The molecular structures of 2 and 3 were established by spectroscopic methods and then confirmed unequivocally by chemical correlation and comparison of physical and chemical data with the natural products. The new β-lactams were successfully synthesized in one step, starting from the known diisocyanide 4, via parallel Ugi four-center three-component reactions (U-4C-3CR) that also established their absolute stereostructures. Interestingly, compounds 2 and 3 exhibited activities in the low nanomolar range against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
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- Edward Avilés
- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California at Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346
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Rotstein BH, Zaretsky S, Rai V, Yudin AK. Small Heterocycles in Multicomponent Reactions. Chem Rev 2014; 114:8323-59. [DOI: 10.1021/cr400615v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 664] [Impact Index Per Article: 66.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Benjamin H. Rotstein
- Davenport
Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6
- Division
of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital,
and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
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- Davenport
Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6
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- Davenport
Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6
- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Indore By-pass Road, Bhauri, Bhopal 462 066, MP India
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- Davenport
Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6
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Grosso C, Valentão P, Ferreres F, Andrade PB. Bioactive marine drugs and marine biomaterials for brain diseases. Mar Drugs 2014; 12:2539-89. [PMID: 24798925 PMCID: PMC4052305 DOI: 10.3390/md12052539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Marine invertebrates produce a plethora of bioactive compounds, which serve as inspiration for marine biotechnology, particularly in drug discovery programs and biomaterials development. This review aims to summarize the potential of drugs derived from marine invertebrates in the field of neuroscience. Therefore, some examples of neuroprotective drugs and neurotoxins will be discussed. Their role in neuroscience research and development of new therapies targeting the central nervous system will be addressed, with particular focus on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. In addition, the neuronal growth promoted by marine drugs, as well as the recent advances in neural tissue engineering, will be highlighted.
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- Clara Grosso
- REQUIMTE/Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, no. 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
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- REQUIMTE/Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, no. 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
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- Research Group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods, Department of Food Science and Technology, CEBAS (CSIC), P.O. Box 164, Campus University Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain.
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- REQUIMTE/Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, no. 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
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Avilés E, Rodríguez AD, Vicente J. Two rare-class tricyclic diterpenes with antitubercular activity from the Caribbean sponge Svenzea flava. Application of vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy for determining absolute configuration. J Org Chem 2013; 78:11294-301. [PMID: 24138557 PMCID: PMC4610370 DOI: 10.1021/jo401846m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Two new natural products, 3 and 4, and their predecessor 7-isocyanoisoneoamphilecta-1(14),15-diene (2), of the rare isoneoamphilectane class of marine diterpenes, along with the known amphilectane diterpenes 6-8, were isolated from the n-hexane extract of the marine sponge Svenzea flava collected at Great Inagua Island, Bahamas. The molecular structures of compounds 3 and 4 were established by spectroscopic (1D/2D NMR, IR, UV, HRMS) methods and confirmed by a series of chemical correlation studies. In a first ever case study of the assignment of the absolute configuration of a molecule based on the isoneoamphilectane carbon skeleton, the absolute configuration of compound 5 was established as 3S,4R,7S,8S,11R,12S,13R by application of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD). In vitro anti-TB screenings revealed that metabolites 2-4 and, in particular, semisynthetic analogue 5, are strong growth inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv.
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- Edward Avilés
- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346 United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 23346, U.P.R. Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346 United States
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Saito K, Nishimori A, Mimura R, Nakano K, Kotsuki H, Masuda T, Ichikawa Y. A Biomimetic Approach to the Synthesis of the Core Structure of the Marine Sponge Terpene Halichonadin G. European J Org Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201301206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Orbegozo T, Burel F, Jubault P, Pannecoucke X. 3,3-gem-Difluorinated-β-lactams: synthesis pathways and applications. Tetrahedron 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.02.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Origins of the β-lactam rings in natural products. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2013; 66:401-10. [DOI: 10.1038/ja.2013.24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2013] [Revised: 02/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hamed RB, Gomez-Castellanos JR, Henry L, Ducho C, McDonough MA, Schofield CJ. The enzymes of β-lactam biosynthesis. Nat Prod Rep 2013; 30:21-107. [DOI: 10.1039/c2np20065a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Nisha, Mehra V, Hopper M, Patel N, Hall D, Wrischnik LA, Land KM, Kumar V. Design and synthesis of β-amino alcohol based β-lactam–isatin chimeras and preliminary analysis of in vitro activity against the protozoal pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis. MEDCHEMCOMM 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c3md00057e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Recent advances in antitubercular natural products. Eur J Med Chem 2012; 49:1-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2011] [Revised: 12/09/2011] [Accepted: 12/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Singh P, Singh P, Kumar M, Gut J, Rosenthal PJ, Kumar K, Kumar V, Mahajan MP, Bisetty K. Synthesis, docking and in vitro antimalarial evaluation of bifunctional hybrids derived from β-lactams and 7-chloroquinoline using click chemistry. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2012; 22:57-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2011.11.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2011] [Revised: 11/16/2011] [Accepted: 11/19/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Covering: 2010. Previous review: Nat. Prod. Rep., 2011, 28, 196. This review covers the literature published in 2010 for marine natural products, with 895 citations (590 for the period January to December 2010) referring to compounds isolated from marine microorganisms and phytoplankton, green, brown and red algae, sponges, cnidarians, bryozoans, molluscs, tunicates, echinoderms, mangroves and other intertidal plants and microorganisms. The emphasis is on new compounds (1003 for 2010), together with the relevant biological activities, source organisms and country of origin. Biosynthetic studies, first syntheses, and syntheses that lead to the revision of structures or stereochemistries, have been included.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Marine sponge Hymeniacidon sp. amphilectane metabolites potently inhibit rat brain microglia thromboxane B2 generation. Bioorg Med Chem 2011; 20:279-82. [PMID: 22153874 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2011.10.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2011] [Revised: 10/27/2011] [Accepted: 10/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The effects of five Hymeniacidon sp. amphilectane metabolites (1-5) and two semi-synthetic analogs (6 and 7) on thromboxane B(2) (TXB(2)) and superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) generation from Escherichia coli LPS-activated rat brain microglia were investigated. All Hymeniacidon sp. metabolites and analogs potently inhibited TXB(2) (IC(50)=0.20-4.69μM) with low lactate dehydrogenase release and minimal mitochondrial dehydrogenase inhibition. While a lack of O(2)(-) inhibition would suggest that Hymeniacidon sp. metabolites and derivatives inhibit TXB(2) synthesis by a cyclooxygenase-dependent mechanism, their pharmacologic potency and limited in vitro cytotoxicity warrants further investigation to develop them as lead compounds to modulate enhanced TBX(2) release by activated microglia in neuroinflammatory disorders.
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