Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 536-543Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.02.003
Keywords
Ambrosia scabra; Sesquiterpene lactones; Psilostachyin C; Trypanocidal activity; Leishmanicidal activity
Funding
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT) [PICT 608, 1701]
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tccnicas (CONICET) [PIP 1540]
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina [B027, B030, B607]
- Fogarty International Center, USA [TW007972]
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy [CRP/ARG09-02]
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In this study, the antiprotozoal activity of the sesquiterpene lactone psilostachyin C was investigated. This natural compound was isolated from Ambrosia scabra by bioassay-guided fractionation and was identified by spectroscopic techniques. Psilostachyin C exerted in vitro trypanocidal activity against Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes, trypomastigotes and amastigotes, with 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of 0.6, 3.5 and 0.9 mu g/mL, respectively, and displayed less cytotoxicity against mammalian cells, with a 50% cytotoxic concentration (CC50) of 87.5 mu g/mL. Interestingly, this compound induced ultrastructural alterations, as seen by transmission electron microscopy, in which vacuolisation and a structural appearance resembling multivesicular bodies were observed even at a concentration as low as 0.2 mu g/mL. In an in vivo assay, a significant reduction in the number of circulating parasites was found in T. cruzi-infected mice treated with psilostachyin C for 5 days compared with untreated mice (7.4 +/- 1.2 x 10(5) parasites/mL vs. 12.8 +/- 2.0 x 10(5) parasites/mL) at the peak of parasitaemia. According to these results, psilostachyin C may be considered a promising template for the design of novel trypanocidal agents. In addition, psilostachyin C inhibited the growth of Leishmania mexicana and Leishmania amazonensis promastigotes (IC50 = 1.2 mu g/mL and 1.5 mu g/mL, respectively). (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. and the International Society of Chemotherapy. All rights reserved.
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