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J Nat Prod ; 81(7): 1610-1618, 2018 07 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29969260

RESUMO

In an effort to find potent natural inhibitors of RhoA and p115 signaling G-proteins, a systematic in vitro evaluation using enzymatic and plasmonic resonance assays was undertaken on 11 317 plant extracts. The screening procedure led to the selection of the New Caledonian endemic species Meiogyne baillonii for a chemical investigation. Using a bioguided isolation procedure, three enediyne-γ-butyrolactones (1-3) and two enediyne-γ-butenolides (4 and 5), named sapranthins H-L, respectively, two enediyne carboxylic acid (6 and 7), two depsidones, stictic acid (8) and baillonic acid (9), aristolactams AIa and AIIa (10 and 11), and two aporphines, dehydroroemerine (12) and noraristolodione (13), were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of the bark. The structures of the new compounds (1-6, 9, and 11) and their relative configurations were established by NMR spectroscopic analysis and by X-ray diffraction analysis for compound 9. Only stictic acid (8) exhibited a significant inhibiting activity of the RhoA-p115 complex, with an EC50 value of 0.19 ± 0.05 mM. This is the first time that a natural inhibitor of the complex RhoA-p115's activity was discovered from an HTS performed over a collection of higher plant extracts. Thus, stictic acid (8) could be used as the first reference compound inhibiting the interaction between RhoA and p115.


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Annonaceae/química , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , Fatores de Troca de Nucleotídeo Guanina Rho/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteína rhoA de Ligação ao GTP/antagonistas & inibidores , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Estrutura Molecular , Casca de Planta/química , Extratos Vegetais/química
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J Neurochem ; 99(2): 582-95, 2006 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16942596

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The urotensin II (UII) gene is primarily expressed in the central nervous system, but the functions of UII in the brain remain elusive. Here, we show that cultured rat astrocytes constitutively express the UII receptor (UT). Saturation and competition experiments performed with iodinated rat UII ([(125)I]rUII) revealed the presence of high- and low-affinity binding sites on astrocytes. Human UII (hUII) and the two highly active agonists hUII(4-11) and [3-iodo-Tyr9]hUII(4-11) were also very potent in displacing [(125)I]rUII from its binding sites, whereas the non-cyclic analogue [Ser5,10]hUII(4-11) and somatostatin-14 could only displace [(125)I]rUII binding at micromolar concentrations. Reciprocally, rUII failed to compete with [(125)I-Tyr0,D-Trp8]somatostatin-14 binding on astrocytes. Exposure of cultured astrocytes to rUII stimulated [(3)H]inositol incorporation and increased intracellular Ca(2+) concentration in a dose-dependent manner. The stimulatory effect of rUII on polyphosphoinositide turnover was abolished by the phospholipase C inhibitor U73122, but only reduced by 56% by pertussis toxin. The GTP analogue Gpp(NH)p caused its own biphasic displacement of [(125)I]rUII binding and provoked an affinity shift of the competition curve of rUII. Pertussis toxin shifted the competition curve towards a single lower affinity state. Taken together, these data demonstrate that rat astrocytes express high- and low-affinity UII binding sites coupled to G proteins, the high-affinity receptor exhibiting the same pharmacological and functional characteristics as UT.


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Astrócitos/metabolismo , Ligação Competitiva/fisiologia , Córtex Cerebral/metabolismo , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/metabolismo , Urotensinas/metabolismo , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos , Astrócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Ligação Competitiva/efeitos dos fármacos , Cálcio/metabolismo , Sinalização do Cálcio/efeitos dos fármacos , Sinalização do Cálcio/fisiologia , Membrana Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Células Cultivadas , Córtex Cerebral/citologia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Inibidores Enzimáticos/farmacologia , Guanosina Trifosfato/análogos & derivados , Guanosina Trifosfato/metabolismo , Inositol/metabolismo , Radioisótopos do Iodo , Fosfatos de Fosfatidilinositol/metabolismo , Ensaio Radioligante , Ratos , Ratos Wistar , Fosfolipases Tipo C/antagonistas & inibidores , Fosfolipases Tipo C/metabolismo , Urotensinas/farmacocinética , Urotensinas/farmacologia
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