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Benastatin K (1), a new chlorinated benastatin derivative, was isolated from the culture broth of the actinomycete Streptomyces sp. HGTA384. The structure of 1 was determined on the basis of spectroscopic analysis, including 1D and 2D NMR, as well as HRESI-MS, UV and IR, and comparison with data reported in the literature. Compound 1 and benastatins A and B exhibited inhibitory activity against Micrococcus luteus (MIC 7.8, 31.3, and 3.9 µM, respectively), and IgE-mediated ß-hexosaminidase release in RBL-2H3 cells with IC50 values of 42, 79, and 19 µM, respectively.
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Anti-Bacterial Agents , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Micrococcus luteus , Streptomyces , Streptomyces/chemistry , Streptomyces/metabolism , Micrococcus luteus/drug effects , Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Anti-Bacterial Agents/isolation & purification , Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry , Animals , Rats , beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases/antagonists & inhibitors , beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases/metabolism , Inhibitory Concentration 50 , Cell Line, Tumor , Molecular StructureABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: The in vivo comet assay is a widely used genotoxicity test that can detect DNA damage in a range of organs. It is included in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals. However, various protocols are still used for this assay, and several different image analyzers are used routinely to evaluate the results. Here, we verified a protocol that largely contributes to the equivalence of results, and we assessed the effect on the results when slides made from the same sample were analyzed using two different image analyzers (Comet Assay IV vs Comet Analyzer). FINDINGS: Standardizing the agarose concentrations and DNA unwinding and electrophoresis times had a large impact on the equivalence of the results between the different methods used for the in vivo comet assay. In addition, there was some variation in the sensitivity of the two different image analyzers tested; however this variation was considered to be minor and became negligible when the test conditions were standardized between the two different methods. CONCLUSION: By standardizing the concentrations of low melting agarose and DNA unwinding and electrophoresis times between both methods used in the current study, the sensitivity to detect the genotoxicity of a positive control substance in the in vivo comet assay became generally comparable, independently of the image analyzer used. However, there may still be the possibility that other conditions, except for the three described here, could affect the reproducibility of the in vivo comet assay.