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Secondary metabolites from Vietnamese marine invertebrates with activity against Trypanosoma brucei and T. cruzi.


ABSTRACT: Marine-derived natural products from invertebrates comprise an extremely diverse and promising source of the compounds from a wide variety of structural classes. This study describes the discovery of five marine natural products with activity against Trypanosoma species by natural product library screening using whole cell in vitro assays. We investigated the anti-trypanosomal activity of the extracts from the soft corals and echinoderms living in Vietnamese seas. Of the samples screened, the methanolic extracts of several marine organisms exhibited potent activities against cultures of Trypanosoma brucei and T. cruzi (EC50 < 5.0 ?g/mL). Among the compounds isolated from these extracts, laevigatol B (1) from Lobophytum crassum and L. laevigatum, (24S)-ergost-4-ene-3-one (2) from Sinularia dissecta, astropectenol A (3) from Astropecten polyacanthus, and cholest-8-ene-3?,5?,6?,7?-tetraol (4) from Diadema savignyi showed inhibitory activity against T. brucei with EC50 values ranging from 1.57 ± 0.14 to 14.6 ± 1.36 ?M, relative to the positive control, pentamidine (EC50 = 0.015 ± 0.003 ?M). Laevigatol B (1) and 5?-cholest-8(14)-ene-3?,7?-diol (5) exhibited also significant inhibitory effects on T. cruzi. The cytotoxic activity of the pure compounds on mammalian cells was also assessed and found to be insignificant in all cases. This is the first report on the inhibitory effects of marine organisms collected in Vietnamese seas against Trypanosoma species responsible for neglected tropical diseases.

SUBMITTER: Thao NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6271609 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Secondary metabolites from Vietnamese marine invertebrates with activity against Trypanosoma brucei and T. cruzi.

Thao Nguyen Phuong NP   No Joo Hwan JH   Luyen Bui Thi Thuy BT   Yang Gyongseon G   Byun Soo Young SY   Goo Junghyun J   Kim Kyung Tae KT   Cuong Nguyen Xuan NX   Nam Nguyen Hoai NH   Van Minh Chau C   Schmidt Thomas J TJ   Kang Jong Seong JS   Kim Young Ho YH  

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20140611 6


Marine-derived natural products from invertebrates comprise an extremely diverse and promising source of the compounds from a wide variety of structural classes. This study describes the discovery of five marine natural products with activity against Trypanosoma species by natural product library screening using whole cell in vitro assays. We investigated the anti-trypanosomal activity of the extracts from the soft corals and echinoderms living in Vietnamese seas. Of the samples screened, the me  ...[more]

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