Dereplication of 4-Quinolone Alkaloids from Waltheria Indica (Malvaceae) Tissues Using Molecular Network Tools.

Waltheria indica (Malvaceae) is a plant popularly used in folk medicine by traditional African and indigenous communities, and in various countries worldwide, to treat general inflammation. Several biological activities of this plant have been reported, including acetylcholinesterase inhibition and potential anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), antinociceptive, analgesic, antifungal, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, leishmanicidal, trypanocidal, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities. The chemical profile of Waltheria indica was assessed by dereplication analysis using UPLC-MS/MS, and data acquisition was performed using chemoinformatics tools, such as Mass Spectrometry-Data Independent AnaLysis (MS-DIAL) and MS-FINDER softwares. The preprocessed data were sent to the GNPS to build a feature-based molecular network (FBMN). Thirty-three 4-quinolone alkaloids were annotated in the extracts and fractions of stems and roots, whereas 12 were annotated in the extracts and fractions of flowers and leaves. This represents an inaugural chemical investigation study employing UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS analysis, along with a molecular network approach, within this species and genus.

Fluoroquinolonas: perspectivas no antibacterianas / Fluoroquinolones: non-antibacterial properties

Las fluoroquinolonas son agentes quimioterapéuticos con potente actividad biológica siendo la estructura de los ácidos 4-quinolona-3-carboxílicos privilegiada ya que contiene diferentes sitios para la funcionalización, permitiendo ampliar su uso en la práctica clínica por sus actividades antifúngicas, antivirales y anticancerosas. Las variaciones estructurales en quinolonas ha resultado en una primera, segunda, tercera y cuarta generación de fármacos por lo que es recomendable continuar modificando estructuras existentes en formas novedosas para generar compuestos con propiedades biológicas y farmacológicas deseables (AU)

Fluoroquinolones are a class of well-established chemotherapeutic agents with a potent biological activity being the structure of 4-quinolone-3-carboxilic acids privileged because it contains different sites for functionalization allowing expand its use in clinical practice for their antifungal, antiviral and anticancer activities. Quinolones structural changes have resulted in a first, second, third and fourth generation of drugs so it is advisable to continue modifying existing structures in new ways to generate compounds with desirable biological and pharmacological properties (AU)