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ArticleMarine drugs2014

Identification of plakortide E from the Caribbean sponge Plakortis halichondroides as a trypanocidal protease inhibitor using bioactivity-guided fractionation.

Swarna Oli, Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, Ute Hentschel, Tanja Schirmeister

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Article in Marine drugs, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Barbituric Acid Derivatives as Covalent Inhibitors ofJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  6. Promising antiparasitic agents from marine sponges.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Swarna OliInstitute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 5, Mainz 55128, Germany. swarnoli@uni-mainz.de.
Usama Ramadan AbdelmohsenDepartment of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Julius-von-Sachs Platz 3, Würzburg 97082, Germany. usama.ramadan@uni-wuerzburg.de.
Ute HentschelDepartment of Botany II, Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Würzburg, Julius-von-Sachs Platz 3, Würzburg 97082, Germany. ute.hentschel@uni-wuerzburg.de.
Tanja SchirmeisterInstitute of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 5, Mainz 55128, Germany. schirmei@uni-mainz.de.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we report new protease inhibitory activity of plakortide E towards cathepsins and cathepsin-like parasitic proteases. We further report on its anti-parasitic activity against Trypanosoma brucei with an IC₅₀ value of 5 μM and without cytotoxic effects against J774.1 macrophages at 100 μM concentration. Plakortide E was isolated from the sponge Plakortis halichondroides using enzyme assay-guided fractionation and identified by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Furthermore, enzyme kinetic studies confirmed plakortide E as a non-competitive, slowly-binding, reversible inhibitor of rhodesain.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntiparasitic AgentsCathepsinsCysteine EndopeptidasesDioxanesDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorHumansPoriferaProtease InhibitorsTrypanocidal AgentsTrypanosoma brucei bruceiAntiparasitic AgentsCathepsinsCysteine EndopeptidasesDioxanesplakortide EProtease InhibitorsrhodesainTrypanocidal Agents

Identifiers

PMID24798927
PMCPMC4052307
OpenAlexW2031140198

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