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ArticlePloS one2011

Zebrafish bioassay-guided natural product discovery: isolation of angiogenesis inhibitors from East African medicinal plants.

Alexander D Crawford, Sandra Liekens, Appolinary R Kamuhabwa, Jan Maes, Sebastian Munck, Roger Busson, Jef Rozenski, Camila V Esguerra, Peter A M de Witte

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Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexander D CrawfordDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. alexander.crawford@pharm.kuleuven.be
Sandra Liekens
Appolinary R Kamuhabwa
Jan Maes
Sebastian Munck
Roger Busson
Jef Rozenski
Camila V Esguerra
Peter A M de Witte
KU Leuven · BERega Institute for Medical Research · BEMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences · TZ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural products represent a significant reservoir of unexplored chemical diversity for early-stage drug discovery. The identification of lead compounds of natural origin would benefit from therapeutically relevant bioassays capable of facilitating the isolation of bioactive molecules from multi-constituent extracts. Towards this end, we developed an in vivo bioassay-guided isolation approach for natural product discovery that combines bioactivity screening in zebrafish embryos with rapid fractionation by analytical thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and initial structural elucidation by high-resolution electrospray mass spectrometry (HRESIMS). Bioactivity screening of East African medicinal plant extracts using fli-1:EGFP transgenic zebrafish embryos identified Oxygonum sinuatum and Plectranthus barbatus as inhibiting vascular development. Zebrafish bioassay-guided fractionation identified the active components of these plants as emodin, an inhibitor of the protein kinase CK2, and coleon A lactone, a rare abietane diterpenoid with no previously described bioactivity. Both emodin and coleon A lactone inhibited mammalian endothelial cell proliferation, migration, and tube formation in vitro, as well as angiogenesis in the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay. These results suggest that the combination of zebrafish bioassays with analytical chromatography methods is an effective strategy for the rapid identification of bioactive natural products.

Indexed as

ZebrafishAbietanesAfrica, EasternAngiogenesis InhibitorsAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedBiological AssayBiological ProductsCells, CulturedChick EmbryoColeusDrug DiscoveryEmbryo, NonmammalianEmodinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsModels, BiologicalAbietanesAngiogenesis InhibitorsBiological Productscoleon A lactoneEmodinenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPlant Extracts

Identifiers

PMID21379387
PMCPMC3040759
OpenAlexW2087140037

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