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- Title
Antiplasmodial in vitro activity of chysanthemoyl-substituted quinones: roles of single-electron reduction potential and glutathione reductase inhibition.
- Authors
Grellier, Philippe; Marozienė, Audronė; Nivinskas, Henrikas; Dolidze, Avtandil; Chedia, Roin; Kavtaradze, Nino; Čėnas, Narimantas
- Abstract
Although quinones have been a subject of great interest as possible antimalarial agents, their mechanisms of action against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are vaguely understood. Flavoenzyme electrontransferase-catalyzed single-electron reduction with the subsequent redox cycling and oxidative stress that accelerates with an increasing the the quinone / semiquinone redox couple (single-electron reduction potential, Due to image rights restrictions, multiple line equation(s) cannot be graphically displayed. ), and the inhibition of the antioxidant flavoenzyme glutathione reductase (GR, EC 1.8.1.7) have been proposed, among several possible mechanisms. Here, we examined the in vitro activity against the P. falciparum strain FcB1 and the inhibition activity of P. falciparum GR several previously uninvestigated hydroxynaphtho- and hydroxyanthraquinones and their esters of chrysanthemic acid. Taken together with our previous results, the obtained data point to a less pronounced role of Due to image rights restrictions, multiple line equation(s) cannot be graphically displayed. in the antiplasmodial activity of quinones as compared with their mammalian cell cytotoxicity, and to a modest role of GR inhibition underlying the other dominant mechanisms of quinone action. However, it also implies that quinones with a low reduction potential may be used as relatively efficient antiplasmodial agents with a low mammalian cell cytotoxicity.
- Subjects
PLASMODIUM falciparum; QUINONE; GLUTATHIONE reductase; REDUCTION potential; ENZYME inhibitors; ANTIMALARIALS; FLAVOPROTEINS
- Publication
Chemija, 2011, Vol 22, Issue 4, p229
- ISSN
0235-7216
- Publication type
Article