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ArticleJournal of natural products2016

Biochemometrics for Natural Products Research: Comparison of Data Analysis Approaches and Application to Identification of Bioactive Compounds.

Joshua J Kellogg, Daniel A Todd, Joseph M Egan, Huzefa A Raja, Nicholas H Oberlies, Olav M Kvalheim, Nadja B Cech

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Article in Journal of natural products, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

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85 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Joshua J KelloggDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.
Daniel A ToddDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.
Joseph M EganDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.
Huzefa A RajaDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.
Nicholas H OberliesDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.
Olav M KvalheimDepartment of Chemistry, University of Bergen , Bergen 5020, Norway.
Nadja B CechDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States.

Funding

Strategies to Investigate Synergy in Botanical MedicinesR01AT006860 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO · PI CECH, NADJA B · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
NCCIH NIH HHS 1R01 AT006860NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT006860
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A central challenge of natural products research is assigning bioactive compounds from complex mixtures. The gold standard approach to address this challenge, bioassay-guided fractionation, is often biased toward abundant, rather than bioactive, mixture components. This study evaluated the combination of bioassay-guided fractionation with untargeted metabolite profiling to improve active component identification early in the fractionation process. Key to this methodology was statistical modeling of the integrated biological and chemical data sets (biochemometric analysis). Three data analysis approaches for biochemometric analysis were compared, namely, partial least-squares loading vectors, S-plots, and the selectivity ratio. Extracts from the endophytic fungi Alternaria sp. and Pyrenochaeta sp. with antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus served as test cases. Biochemometric analysis incorporating the selectivity ratio performed best in identifying bioactive ions from these extracts early in the fractionation process, yielding altersetin (3, MIC 0.23 μg/mL) and macrosphelide A (4, MIC 75 μg/mL) as antibacterial constituents from Alternaria sp. and Pyrenochaeta sp., respectively. This study demonstrates the potential of biochemometrics coupled with bioassay-guided fractionation to identify bioactive mixture components. A benefit of this approach is the ability to integrate multiple stages of fractionation and bioassay data into a single analysis.

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AlternariaAnti-Bacterial AgentsBiological ProductsHeterocyclic CompoundsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMolecular StructureStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsBiological ProductsHeterocyclic Compoundsmacrosphelide A

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PMID26841051
PMCPMC5135737

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