Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-DRUGS AND DRUG RESISTANCE
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 72-79Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2018.12.006
Keywords
Haemonchus contortus; Anthelmintic; Natural products; Cryptocarya novoguineensis; Piper methysticum; alpha-pyrones
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- Australian Research Council
- Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV)
- Yourgene Bioscience
- University of Melbourne
- Australian Government's Education Investment Fund through the Super Science Initiative
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Foundation
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Due to the widespread occurrence and spread of anthelmintic resistance, there is a need to develop new drugs against resistant parasitic nematodes of livestock animals. The Nobel Prize-winning discovery and development of the anti-parasitic drugs avermectin and artemisinin has renewed the interest in exploring natural products as anthelmintics. In the present study, we screened 7500 plant extracts for in vitro-activity against the barber's pole worm, Haemonchus contortus, a highly significant pathogen of ruminants. The anthelmintic extracts from two plants, Cryptocarya novoguineensis and Piper methysticum, were fractionated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Subsequently, compounds were purified from fractions with significant biological activity. Four alpha-pyrones, namely goniothalamin (GNT), dihydrokavain (DHK), desmethoxyyangonin (DMY) and yangonin (YGN), were purified from fractions from the two plants, GNT from C. novoguineensis, and DHK, DMY and YGN (= kavalactones) from P. methysticum. The three kavalactones induced a lethal, eviscerated (Evi) phenotype in treated exsheathed third-stage larvae (xL3s), and DMY and YGN had moderate potencies (IC50 values of 31.7 +/- 0.23 mu M and 23.7 +/- 2.05 mu M, respectively) at inhibiting the development of xL3s to fourth-stage larvae (L4s). Although GNT had limited potency (IC50 of 200-300 mu M) at inhibiting L4 development, it was the only compound that reduced L4 motility (IC50 of 6.25-12.50 mu M). The compounds purified from each plant affected H. contortus in an irreversible manner. These findings suggest that structure-activity relationship studies of alpha-pyrones should be pursued to assess their potential as anthelmintics.
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