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BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 726-729Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2016.01.007
Keywords
D-Arabinose; Growth inhibition; Caenorhabditis elegans; Aldopentose; Rare sugar
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- NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs [P40 OD010440]
- JSPS KAKENHI Grant [22580122, 25450156]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25450156, 22580122] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Biological activities of unusual monosaccharides (rare sugars) have largely remained unstudied until recently. We compared the growth inhibitory effects of aldohexose stereoisomers against the animal model Caenorhabditis elegans cultured in monoxenic conditions with Escherichia coli as food. Among these stereoisomers, the rare sugar D-arabinose (D-Ara) showed particularly strong growth inhibition. The IC50 value for D-Ara was estimated to be 7.5 mM, which surpassed that of the potent glycolytic inhibitor 2-deoxy- D-glucose (19.5 mM) used as a positive control. The inhibitory effect of D-Ara was also observed in animals cultured in axenic conditions using a chemically defined medium; this excluded the possible influence of E. coli. To our knowledge, this is the first report of biological activity of D-Ara. The D-Ara-induced inhibition was recovered by adding either D-ribose or D-fructose, but not D-glucose. These findings suggest that the inhibition could be induced by multiple mechanisms, for example, disturbance of D-ribose and D-fructose metabolism. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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