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J Chem Phys ; 158(9): 094201, 2023 Mar 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36889980

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We present the first experimental application of coherent Raman spectroscopy (CRS) on the ro-vibrational ν2 mode spectrum of methane (CH4). Ultrabroadband femtosecond/picosecond (fs/ps) CRS is performed in the molecular fingerprint region from 1100 to 2000 cm-1, employing fs laser-induced filamentation as the supercontinuum generation mechanism to provide the ultrabroadband excitation pulses. We introduce a time-domain model of the CH4 ν2 CRS spectrum, including all five ro-vibrational branches allowed by the selection rules Δv = 1, ΔJ = 0, ±1, ±2; the model includes collisional linewidths, computed according to a modified exponential gap scaling law and validated experimentally. The use of ultrabroadband CRS for in situ monitoring of the CH4 chemistry is demonstrated in a laboratory CH4/air diffusion flame: CRS measurements in the fingerprint region, performed across the laminar flame front, allow the simultaneous detection of molecular oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2), and molecular hydrogen (H2), along with CH4. Fundamental physicochemical processes, such as H2 production via CH4 pyrolysis, are observed through the Raman spectra of these chemical species. In addition, we demonstrate ro-vibrational CH4 v2 CRS thermometry, and we validate it against CO2 CRS measurements. The present technique offers an interesting diagnostics approach to in situ measurement of CH4-rich environments, e.g., in plasma reactors for CH4 pyrolysis and H2 production.

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Phytochem Anal ; 34(1): 48-55, 2023 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36191930

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INTRODUCTION: Data Fusion-based Discovery (DAFdiscovery) is a pipeline designed to help users combine mass spectrometry (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and bioactivity data in a notebook-based application to accelerate annotation and discovery of bioactive compounds. It applies Statistical Total Correlation Spectroscopy (STOCSY) and Statistical HeteroSpectroscopy (SHY) calculation in their data using an easy-to-follow Jupyter Notebook. METHOD: Different case studies are presented for benchmarking, and the resultant outputs are shown to aid natural products identification and discovery. The goal is to encourage users to acquire MS and NMR data from their samples (in replicated samples and fractions when available) and to explore their variance to highlight MS features, NMR peaks, and bioactivity that might be correlated to accelerated bioactive compound discovery or for annotation-identification studies. RESULTS: Different applications were demonstrated using data from different research groups, and it was shown that DAFdiscovery reproduced their findings using a more straightforward method. CONCLUSION: DAFdiscovery has proven to be a simple-to-use method for different situations where data from different sources are required to be analyzed together.


Asunto(s)
Productos Biológicos , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética/métodos , Espectrometría de Masas/métodos
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Opt Express ; 30(20): 35232-35245, 2022 Sep 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36258479

RESUMEN

Time-resolved spectroscopy can provide valuable insights in hydrogen chemistry, with applications ranging from fundamental physics to the use of hydrogen as a commercial fuel. This work represents the first-ever demonstration of in-situ femtosecond laser-induced filamentation to generate a compressed supercontinuum behind a thick optical window, and its in-situ use to perform femtosecond/picosecond coherent Raman spectroscopy (CRS) on molecular hydrogen (H2). The ultrabroadband coherent excitation of Raman active molecules in measurement scenarios within an enclosed space has been hindered thus far by the window material imparting temporal stretch to the pulse. We overcome this challenge and present the simultaneous single-shot detection of the rotational H2 and the non-resonant CRS spectra in a laminar H2/air diffusion flame. Implementing an in-situ referencing protocol, the non-resonant spectrum measures the spectral phase of the supercontinuum pulse and maps the efficiency of the ultrabroadband coherent excitation achieved behind the window. This approach provides a straightforward path for the implementation of ultrabroadband H2 CRS in enclosed environment such as next-generation hydrogen combustors and reforming reactors.

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Opt Lett ; 47(23): 6105-6108, 2022 Dec 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37219183

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We report on the generation of coherent emission from femtosecond (fs) laser-induced filaments mediated by ultrabroadband coherent Raman scattering (CRS), and we investigate its application for high-resolution gas-phase thermometry. Broadband 35-fs, 800-nm pump pulses generate the filament through photoionization of the N2 molecules, while narrowband picosecond (ps) pulses at 400 nm seed the fluorescent plasma medium via generation of an ultrabroadband CRS signal, resulting in a narrowband and highly spatiotemporally coherent emission at 428 nm. This emission satisfies the phase-matching for the crossed pump-probe beams geometry, and its polarization follows the CRS signal polarization. We perform spectroscopy on the coherent N2 + signal to investigate the rotational energy distribution of the N2 + ions in the excited B2Σu + electronic state and demonstrate that the ionization mechanism of the N2 molecules preserves the original Boltzmann distribution to within the experimental conditions tested.

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J Nat Prod ; 84(4): 1373-1384, 2021 04 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33822611

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Brown algae and soft corals represent the main marine sources of dolabellane diterpenes. The antiviral activity of dolabellanes has been studied for those isolated from algae, whereas dolabellanes isolated from soft corals have been barely studied. In this work, a collection of dolabellane diterpenes consisting of five natural and 21 semisynthetic derivatives was constructed, and their antiviral activities against Zika (ZIKV) and Chikungunya (CHIKV) viruses were tested. Dolabellatrienone (1) and (1R,7R,8R,11S)-7,8-epoxy-13-keto-dolabella-3,12(18)-diene (2), isolated from Eunicea genus soft corals, were employed to obtain 21 dolabellane and dolastane diterpenes by reactions such as allylic oxidations, reductions, acid-catalyzed epoxide ring opening, and acetylations. All of the compounds were identified by a combination of one- and two-dimensional NMR, mass spectrometry, and X-ray diffraction experiments. The cytotoxicites against Vero cells and the antiviral activities against ZIKV and CHIKV was tested to calculate the half-maximal effective concentration (EC50) and selectivity indexes (SIs). In general, the addition of oxygen-containing functional groups improved the bioactivity of dolabellane and dolastane diterpenes against ZIKV and CHIKV replication. Compound 9 showed an EC50 = 0.92 ± 0.08 µM and SI = 820 against ZIKV.


Asunto(s)
Antozoos/química , Antivirales/farmacología , Virus Chikungunya/efectos de los fármacos , Diterpenos/farmacología , Virus Zika/efectos de los fármacos , Animales , Antivirales/síntesis química , Región del Caribe , Chlorocebus aethiops , Colombia , Diterpenos/síntesis química , Estructura Molecular , Oxígeno/química , Células Vero
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Opt Lett ; 45(17): 4662-4665, 2020 Sep 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32870825

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We report spatiotemporal pure-rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) in a one-dimensional imaging arrangement obtained with a single ultrafast regenerative amplifier system. The femtosecond pump/Stokes photon pairs, used for impulsive excitation, are delivered by an external compressor operating on a ∼35% beam split of the uncompressed amplifier output (2.5 mJ/pulse). The picosecond 1.2 mJ probe pulse is produced via the second-harmonic bandwidth compression (SHBC) of the ∼65% remainder of the amplifier output (4.5 mJ/pulse), which originates from the internal compressor. The two pump/Stokes and probe pulses are spatially, temporally, and repetition-wise correlated at the measurement, and the signal generation plane is relayed by a wide-field coherent imaging spectrometer onto the detector plane, which is refreshed at the same repetition rate as the ultrafast regenerative amplifier system. We demonstrate 1 kHz cinematographic 1D-CARS gas-phase thermometry across an unstable premixed methane/air flame-front, achieved with a single-shot precision <1% and accuracy <3%, 1.4 mm field of view, and an excellent <20µm line-spread function.

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Mar Drugs ; 18(1)2019 Dec 18.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31861453

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The Caribbean soft coral Erythropodium caribaeorum is a rich source of erythrolides-chlorinated briarane diterpenoids. These compounds have an ecological role as feeding deterrents, with a wide variation in their composition depending on the location where the sample is collected. In Colombia, this soft coral can be found at different locations in the Caribbean Sea including Santa Marta, Islas del Rosario, and Providencia-three environmentally different coral reef areas in the south and southwest Caribbean Sea. In order to evaluate differences in erythrolide composition, the metabolic profiles of samples from each of these locations were analyzed by HPLC-MS. Principal component analysis showed changes in the diterpene composition according to the sample origin. Diterpenes from samples collected at each location were isolated to describe the three chemotypes. The chemotype from Santa Marta was highly diverse, with the new erythrolides W and X together with eight known erythrolides. The sample from Islas del Rosario showed a low diversity chemotype constituted by high amounts of erythrolide A and B. The chemotype from Providencia showed low chemical diversity with only two main compounds-erythrolide V and R. Evaluation of cytotoxic activity against the human cancer cell lines PC-3, MCF7, and A549 showed erythrolides A and B as the more active compounds with IC50 values in the range from 2.45 to 30 µM.


Asunto(s)
Antozoos/química , Metaboloma , Animales , Antozoos/metabolismo , Región del Caribe , Colombia , Arrecifes de Coral , Diterpenos/química , Humanos
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Bioorg Med Chem Lett ; 24(18): 4381-4383, 2014 Sep 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25176328

RESUMEN

Research on dolabellane diterpenes of brown algae Dictyota spp. has shown that these diterpenoids have strong anti-HIV-1 activity, but there are not data about antiviral activity of dolabellane diterpenes isolated from octocorals, which are antipodes of those isolated from the brown algae. Dolabellanes 13-keto-1(R),11(S)-dolabella-3(E),7(E),12(18)-triene (1) and ß-Araneosene (2) were isolated from the Caribbean octocoral Eunicea laciniata, and both showed low anti-HIV-1 activity and low toxicity. Since it was shown that oxygenated dolabellanes from algae have better anti-HIV-1 activity, in this work some derivatives of the main dolabellane of E. laciniata1 were obtained by epoxidation (3), epoxide opening (4), and allylic oxidation (5). The derivatives showed significant improvement in the anti-HIV-1potency (100-fold), being compounds 3 and 5 the most active ones. Their high antiviral activities, along with their low cytotoxicity, make them promissory antiviral compounds; and it is worth noting that the absolute configuration at the ring junction in the dolabellane skeleton does not seem to be determinant in the antiviral potency of these diterpeneoids.


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Fármacos Anti-VIH/farmacología , Diterpenos/química , VIH/efectos de los fármacos , Oxígeno/química , Fármacos Anti-VIH/síntesis química , Fármacos Anti-VIH/química , Línea Celular Transformada , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Humanos , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Conformación Molecular , Relación Estructura-Actividad
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Bioorg Med Chem ; 22(24): 6789-95, 2014 Dec 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25468043

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Marine benthic cyanobacteria are widely known as a source of toxic and potentially useful compounds.These microorganisms have been studied from many Caribbean locations, which recently include locations in the Colombian Caribbean Sea. In the present study, six lipopeptides named almiramides D to H, together with the known almiramide B are identified from a mat characterized as Oscillatoria nigroviridis collected at the Island of Providence (Colombia, S.W. Caribbean Sea). The most abundant compounds, almiramides B and D were characterized by NMR and HRESIMS, while the structures of the minor compounds almiramides E to H were proposed by the analysis of their HRESIMS and MS2 spectra. Almiramides B and D were tested against six human cell lines including a gingival fibroblast cell line and five human tumor cell lines (A549, MDA-MB231, MCF-7, HeLa and PC3) showing a strong but not selective toxicity.


Asunto(s)
Lipopéptidos/química , Oscillatoria/metabolismo , Animales , Artemia/efectos de los fármacos , Línea Celular , Supervivencia Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Células HeLa , Humanos , Lipopéptidos/aislamiento & purificación , Lipopéptidos/toxicidad , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética , Conformación Molecular
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Mar Drugs ; 12(7): 4247-59, 2014 Jul 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25056631

RESUMEN

The marine brown alga Dictyota pfaffii from Atol das Rocas, in Northeast Brazil is a rich source of dolabellane diterpene, which has the potential to be used in future antiviral drugs by inhibiting reverse transcriptase (RT) of HIV-1. Reexamination of the minor diterpene constituents yielded three new dolabellane diterpenes, (1R*,2E,4R*,7S,10S*,11S*,12R*)10,18-diacetoxy-7-hydroxy-2,8(17)-dolabelladiene (1), (1R*,2E,4R*,7R*,10S*,11S*,12R*)10,18-diacetoxy-7-hydroxy-2,8(17)-dolabelladiene (2), (1R*,2E,4R*,8E,10S*,11S,12R*)10,18-diacetoxy-7-hydroxy-2,8-dolabelladiene (3), termed dolabelladienols A-C (1-3) respectively, in addition to the known dolabellane diterpenes (4-6). The elucidation of the compounds 1-3 was assigned by 1D and 2D NMR, MS, optical rotation and molecular modeling, along with the relative configuration of compound 4 and the absolute configuration of 5 by X-ray diffraction. The potent anti-HIV-1 activities displayed by compounds 1 and 2 (IC50 = 2.9 and 4.1 µM), which were more active than even the known dolabelladienetriol 4, and the low cytotoxic activity against MT-2 lymphocyte tumor cells indicated that these compounds are promising anti-HIV-1 agents.


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Fármacos Anti-VIH/aislamiento & purificación , Diterpenos/aislamiento & purificación , Phaeophyceae/metabolismo , Fármacos Anti-VIH/química , Fármacos Anti-VIH/farmacología , Diterpenos/química , Diterpenos/farmacología , VIH-1/efectos de los fármacos , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética
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Bioorg Med Chem ; 21(1): 242-56, 2013 Jan 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23177728

RESUMEN

Natural cembranoids have shown Quorum Sensing Inhibitory (QSI) activity, but their structure-function interactions are not well understood. Thirty-four cembranoid analogues were synthesized using six natural cembranoids (1-6) previously isolated from the Colombian Caribbean octocorals Eunicea knighti and Pseudoplexaura flagellosa as lead compounds. The analogues (7-40) obtained through the selected chemical transformations were tested in vitro against the QS systems of a Chromobacterium violaceum biosensor. Half of the cembranoid analogues assayed showed superior QSI activity to the lead compounds; three (8, 13, and 18) displayed remarkable potency up to three times higher than the natural compounds. Thereby, we have synthesized a pool of cembranoid QS inhibitors that can be used in concert with natural compounds to develop antipathogenic drugs and antifouling agents.


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Antozoos/química , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Chromobacterium/efectos de los fármacos , Diterpenos/química , Diterpenos/farmacología , Percepción de Quorum/efectos de los fármacos , Animales , Antibacterianos/síntesis química , Región del Caribe , Chromobacterium/fisiología , Diterpenos/síntesis química
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J Nat Prod ; 75(9): 1637-42, 2012 Sep 28.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22905751

RESUMEN

Three new cembranoid diterpenes, knightine (1), 11(R)-hydroxy-12(20)-en-knightal (2), and 11(R)-hydroxy-12(20)-en-knightol acetate (3), were isolated as minor constituents of the Caribbean gorgonian Eunicea knighti, along with the known cembranoids 4-8. The stereostructures of the new compounds were determined by detailed spectroscopic analyses and a combination of chemical transformations and modified Mosher's methods. All isolated cembranoids were tested against fouling using a quorum-sensing inhibition (QSI) assay and a biofilm inhibition test. Compounds 2, 3, and 6 disrupted QS systems at lower concentrations than kojic acid and Cu(2)O, and in most cases cembranoids 1-8 showed bacterial biofilm inhibition at lower concentrations than kojic acid.


Asunto(s)
Antozoos/química , Biopelículas/efectos de los fármacos , Diterpenos/aislamiento & purificación , Diterpenos/farmacología , Percepción de Quorum/efectos de los fármacos , Animales , Región del Caribe , Diterpenos/química , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Estructura Molecular , Pseudomonas aeruginosa/efectos de los fármacos , Pironas/farmacología , Staphylococcus aureus/efectos de los fármacos , Estereoisomerismo , Vibrio/efectos de los fármacos
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Phytochem Anal ; 23(3): 232-9, 2012.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21858882

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INTRODUCTION: Leaves and fruits of Passiflora species are widely used around the world in popular medicine, mainly as sedatives and tranquilisers. C-glycosyl flavonoids are the main components of these species. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the constituent patterns and to develop a chromatographic method for the characterisation of the C-glycosyl flavonoids profile of the extracts of the leaves and the pericarp of South American Passiflora species. METHODOLOGY: The chemical composition of extracts from the leaves and the fruits' pericarp of Passiflora edulis var. flavicarpa, P. edulis var. edulis, Passiflora alata, Passiflora tripartita var. mollissima, Passiflora quadrangularis, Passiflora manicata and Passiflora ligularis was evaluated for the presence of C-glycosyl flavonoids. Two separate HPLC methods were developed suitable for a diode array detector (DAD) and a MS detector. Separation by HPLC-DAD was achieved on a Luna C-18 column, using solvent A (tetrahydrofuran-isopropanol-acetonitrile) and solvent B (H3PO4 0.5%) in an isocratic elution mode. In the HPLC-MS, the components were separated on a Luna RP-18A column by a gradient elution (water-acetonitrile-formic acid). RESULTS: The presence of C-glycosyl flavonoids was identified in leaves and pericarp of P. edulis var. flavicarpa, P. alata, P. edulis var. edulis and P. tripartita var. molissima, but only in leaf extracts of P. quadrangularis and P. manicata and not at all in P. ligularis. The different species and varieties showed different major constituents. The C-glycosyl flavonoids identified more frequently were orientin, isoorientin, vitexin and isovitexin. CONCLUSION: The methods established are simple and can be used as a tool for the characterisation and quality control of pharmaceutical preparations containing these Passiflora extracts.


Asunto(s)
Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión/métodos , Flavonoides/análisis , Glicósidos/análisis , Passiflora/química , Hojas de la Planta/química , Flavonoides/química , Frutas/química , Geografía , Glicósidos/química , Espectrometría de Masas/métodos , Estructura Molecular , Passiflora/clasificación , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Solventes/química , América del Sur , Especificidad de la Especie
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Bioorg Med Chem Lett ; 21(19): 5888-91, 2011 Oct 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21865038

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The screen of 10 soft coral extracts collected from the Colombian Caribbean Sea in the TPA-induced ear edema model allowed us to identify Eunicea fusca extract among others as an interesting source of active compounds. The new diterpene, fuscoside E (1), along with the known fuscoside B (2), fuscol (3), (+)-germacrene D (4) and a mixture of six sterols (5-10), were isolated from this soft coral. Their structures were elucidated by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy techniques. Fuscoside E (1) absolute stereochemistry was determined by chiroptical methods. Fuscoside E (1) and B (2) showed strong anti-inflammatory in the above mentioned bioassay. Additionally, fuscoside E (1) and the sterol mixture (5-10) presented antifouling activity against bacterial strains involved in surface colonization.


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Antozoos , Antibacterianos/química , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/química , Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/farmacología , Diterpenos/química , Diterpenos/farmacología , Edema/tratamiento farmacológico , Glicósidos/química , Glicósidos/farmacología , Animales , Antibacterianos/aislamiento & purificación , Antiinflamatorios no Esteroideos/aislamiento & purificación , Bacillus/efectos de los fármacos , Bioensayo , Productos Biológicos/química , Productos Biológicos/aislamiento & purificación , Productos Biológicos/farmacología , Región del Caribe , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Diterpenos/aislamiento & purificación , Descubrimiento de Drogas , Evaluación Preclínica de Medicamentos , Oído , Edema/inducido químicamente , Glicósidos/aislamiento & purificación , Ratones , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Conformación Molecular , Estructura Molecular , Estereoisomerismo , Vibrio/efectos de los fármacos
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J Pharm Pharmacol ; 73(11): 1530-1538, 2021 Oct 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34436599

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OBJECTIVES: The objective of this work was to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activity of the aqueous extract, fractions and major compounds, which are isolated and identified from Passiflora edulis f. edulis (purple passion fruit) leaves extract. METHODS: For the isolation of the major compounds, reversed-phase chromatography and normal phase countercurrent chromatography were used. The separation was followed by thin layer chromatography and HPLC-DAD-ELSD. One-dimensional and two-dimensional NMR and ESI-TOF-MS/MS were used for structural elucidation. The anti-inflammatory activity was evaluated on a TPA multiple dose model of skin chronic inflammation in mice. Additionally, myeloperoxidase (MPO) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity assays were performed as possible mechanisms of action studies. KEY FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: The study of the butanolic fraction mainly showed the presence of saponins and flavonoids. Three minor flavonoids were detected; and three known saponins, cyclopassiflosides IX, XI and III were isolated and identified. This is the first unequivocal report of the presence of these compounds in P. edulis f. edulis leaves. The most favourable results of anti-inflammatory activity were obtained for the flavonoid-rich fraction. All the fractions and isolated compounds evaluated, presented high percentages of inhibition of nitric oxide synthase activity.


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Antiinflamatorios/uso terapéutico , Flavonoides/uso terapéutico , Inflamación/prevención & control , Passiflora/química , Fitoterapia , Saponinas/uso terapéutico , Piel/efectos de los fármacos , Animales , Antiinflamatorios/farmacología , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión , Femenino , Flavonoides/análisis , Flavonoides/farmacología , Inflamación/inducido químicamente , Inflamación/metabolismo , Ratones Endogámicos ICR , Óxido Nítrico Sintasa/antagonistas & inhibidores , Extractos Vegetales/química , Extractos Vegetales/farmacología , Extractos Vegetales/uso terapéutico , Hojas de la Planta/química , Saponinas/aislamiento & purificación , Saponinas/farmacología , Enfermedades de la Piel/metabolismo , Enfermedades de la Piel/prevención & control , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem , Acetato de Tetradecanoilforbol/análogos & derivados
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J Agric Food Chem ; 69(9): 2919-2931, 2021 Mar 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33621072

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The leaves of Passiflora ligularis Juss (known as sweet granadilla for its edible fruits) are a crop byproduct that is discarded. With the aim of contributing to give value-added products from these crop by-side products to farmers of Colombian Andes, we carried out a 1H-NMR-metabolomics analysis of polar extracts from leaves collected in three locations and stored in two conditions in order to identify glucosyl-hydrolase inhibitors. Variations in the metabolic profile and the bioactivity among samples were analyzed by orthogonal partial least square discriminant analysis. Thus, 1H-NMR signals related to polyphenolic compounds, saponins, and amino acids were correlated with higher inhibitory activities. Moreover, a targeted NMR and HPLC-MS/MS analysis allowed the identification of 14 polyphenolic compounds and the structural characterization of a new triterpenoid saponin, ligularoside A. The measurements of IC50 values for α-amylase and α-glycosidase inhibitors allowed the identification of quercetin-3-O-ß-glucoside, kaempferol-3-O-ß-glucoside, and ligularoside A as the most active compounds. These results suggest that P. ligularis leaves are a source of glucosyl-hydrolase inhibitors and lay the foundation for exploring additional applications.


Asunto(s)
Passiflora , Saponinas , Triterpenos , Inhibidores de Glicósido Hidrolasas , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética , Metabolómica , Extractos Vegetales , Hojas de la Planta , Espectrometría de Masas en Tándem , alfa-Amilasas
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Chem Biol Drug Des ; 98(4): 507-521, 2021 10.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34143939

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Among the compounds of natural origin, diterpenes have proved useful as drugs for the treatment of cancer. Marine organisms, such as soft corals and algae, are a promising source of diterpenes, being a rich and unexplored source of cytotoxic agents. This study evaluated a library of 32 natural and semisynthetic marine diterpenes, including briarane, cembrane, and dolabellane nuclei, with the aim of determining their cytotoxicity against three human cancer cell lines (A549, MCF7, and PC3). The three most active compounds were submitted to a flow cytometry analysis in order to determine induction of apoptosis against the A549 cell line. An NMR analysis was conducted to determine and evaluate the interactions between active diterpenes and tubulin. These interactions were characterized by a computational study using molecular docking and MD simulations. With these results, two cembrane and one chlorinated briarane diterpenes were active against the three human cancer cell lines, induced apoptosis in the A549 cell line, and showed interactions with tubulin preferably at the taxane-binding site. This study is a starting point for the identification and optimization of the marine diterpenes selected for better antitumor activities. It also highlights the power of integrating NMR studies, computational predictions, and in vitro assays in the search for compounds with antitumor activity.


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Antozoos/química , Antineoplásicos/química , Productos Biológicos/química , Mezclas Complejas/química , Diterpenos/química , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequeñas/química , Animales , Antineoplásicos/farmacología , Apoptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Productos Biológicos/farmacología , Línea Celular Tumoral , Mezclas Complejas/farmacología , Biología Computacional , Diterpenos/farmacología , Ensayos de Selección de Medicamentos Antitumorales , Halogenación , Humanos , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética , Modelos Moleculares , Bibliotecas de Moléculas Pequeñas/farmacología , Relación Estructura-Actividad
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J Sep Sci ; 33(15): 2316-21, 2010 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20603836

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The sponge Discodermia dissoluta is the source of the potent antimitotic compound (+)-discodermolide. The relatively abundant and shallow populations of this sponge in Santa Marta, Colombia, allow for studies to evaluate the natural and biotechnological supply options of (+)-discodermolide. In this work, an RP-HPLC-UV methodology for the quantification of (+)-discodermolide from sponge samples was tested and validated. Our protocol for extracting this compound from the sponge included lyophilization, exhaustive methanol extraction, partitioning using water and dichloromethane, purification of the organic fraction in RP-18 cartridges and then finally retrieving the (+)-discodermolide in the methanol-water (80:20 v/v) fraction. This fraction was injected into an HPLC system with an Xterra RP-18 column and a detection wavelength of 235 nm. The calibration curve was linear, making it possible to calculate the LODs and quantification in these experiments. The intra-day and inter-day precision showed relative standard deviations lower than 5%. The accuracy, determined as the percentage recovery, was 99.4%. Nine samples of the sponge from the Bahamas, Bonaire, Curaçao and Santa Marta had concentrations of (+)-discodermolide ranging from 5.3 to 29.3 microg/g(-1) of wet sponge. This methodology is quick and simple, allowing for the quantification in sponges from natural environments, in situ cultures or dissociated cells.


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Alcanos/análisis , Carbamatos/análisis , Lactonas/análisis , Poríferos/química , Pironas/análisis , Animales , Cromatografía Líquida de Alta Presión , Conformación Molecular , Espectrofotometría Ultravioleta , Estereoisomerismo
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Phytochemistry ; 172: 112272, 2020 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32032827

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Banana passion fruit of the Passiflora genus, are commercially cultivated on a small to medium scale, mainly as edible fruits or as components of traditional herbal medicines. This subgenus comprises several species and hybrid specimens that grow readily in the wild. Due to their taxonomical complexity, many of these species have recently been reclassified (Ocampo Pérez and Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, 2017), and their chemical profile has still to be determined. In this study, an 1H NMR-based platform was applied to the chemical profiling of seven wild species of the Passiflora subgenus, and UHPLC-DAD-MS was additionally used for the identification of phenolic compounds. A total of 59 compounds were detected including 26 O- and C-glycosidated flavonoids and polyphenols, nine organic acids, seven amino acids, GABA, sucrose, glucose, myo-inositol, and five other non-identified compounds. Two of the identified compounds are the previously undescribed C-glycosyl flavonoids, apigenin-4'-O-ß-glucopyranosyl, 8-C-ß-(6″acetyl)-glucopyranoside and apigenin-4-O-ß-glucopyranosyl-8-C-ß-neohesperidoside. These C-glycosyl flavonoids were isolated to confirm their proposed structures by NMR and LCMS analysis. The PCA score plots obtained from the 1H NMR data of the studied Passiflora samples showed P. cumbalensis and P. uribei as the species with the most distinguishable chemical profile. In addition, a correlation analysis using OPLS-DA was conducted between 1H-NMR data and the quorum quenching activity (QQ) of Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC 31532. This analysis revealed P. lehmannii, and P. uribei extracts to be the most active, and apigenin-4'-O-ß-glucopyranosyl, 8-C-ß-(6″acetyl)-glucopyranoside and apigenin-4-O-ß-glucopyranosyl-8-C-ß-neohesperidoside were identified as possibly responsible for the QQ activity. To confirm this, QQ activity of both compounds was tested against C. violaceum ATCC 3153. An inhibition of violacein production of 0.135 mM (100 µg/mL) and 0.472 mM (300 µg/mL) was observed for apigenin-4'-O-ß-glucopyranosyl,8-C-ß-(6″acetyl)-glucopyranoside and apigenin-4-O-ß-glucopyranosyl-8-C-ß-neohesperidoside respectively, while bacterial growth was unaffected in both cases. Furthermore, both compounds showed the ability to inhibit the production of the toxoflavin of the phytopathogen Burkholderia glumae ATCC 33617.


Asunto(s)
Musa , Passiflora , Flavonoides , Frutas , Percepción de Quorum
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Microbiol Res ; 239: 126507, 2020 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32563122

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Actinobacteria are the major source of bioactive secondary metabolites and are featured in the search for antimicrobial compounds. We used nuclear magnetic resonance (RMN)-metabolic profiling and multivariate data analysis (MVDA) to correlate the metabolites' production of Streptomyces sp. PNM-9 from the algae Dictyota sp. and their biological activity against the rice phytopathogenic bacteria Burkholderia spp. The compounds 2-methyl-N-(2'-phenylethyl)-butanamide (1) and 3-methyl-N-(2'-phenylethyl)-butanamide (2) were identified through MVDA and 2D NMR experiments in the organic extract of a 15-days LB media culture of Streptomyces sp. PNM-9. Compounds 1 and 2 were isolated and their structures confirmed by one- and two-dimensional NMR and mass spectrometry (MS) data. Compounds 1 and 2 were active against the rice pathogenic bacteria Burkholderia glumae (ATCC 33,617) displaying minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 2.43 mM and 1.21 mM, respectively. The metabolomics-guided approach employing NMR-metabolic profiling was useful for marine microbial bioprospecting and suggested Streptomyces sp. PNM-9 strain and its compounds as a potential control against phytopathogenic bacteria.


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Antibacterianos/farmacología , Burkholderia/efectos de los fármacos , Medios de Cultivo/farmacología , Metabolómica/métodos , Streptomyces/química , Amidas/química , Amidas/farmacología , Antibacterianos/aislamiento & purificación , Organismos Acuáticos/química , Bioprospección , Burkholderia/patogenicidad , Medios de Cultivo/química , Espectroscopía de Resonancia Magnética , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Enfermedades de las Plantas/microbiología , Enfermedades de las Plantas/prevención & control
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