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ArticleMarine drugs2019

Comparative Analyses of Metabolomic Fingerprints and Cytotoxic Activities of Soft Corals from the Colombian Caribbean.

Liliana Santacruz, Olivier P Thomas, Carmenza Duque, Mónica Puyana, Edisson Tello

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Article in Marine drugs, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Cnidarian toxins: omics approaches and recombinant proteins.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2025
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  5. Metabolomics Based onFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Liliana SantacruzBioprospecting Research Group and Bioscience Doctoral Program, Faculty of Engineering, Campus Puente del Común, Universidad de La Sabana, 250001 Chía, Colombia. lilianasaci@unisabana.edu.co.ORCID 0000-0002-4312-8894
Olivier P ThomasMarine Biodiscovery, School of Chemistry and Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), University Road, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland. olivier.thomas@nuigalway.ie.ORCID 0000-0002-5708-1409
Carmenza DuqueDepartamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 30 # 45-03, 111321 Bogotá, Colombia. cduqueb@unal.edu.co.
Mónica PuyanaDepartamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Carrera 4 # 22-61, 110311 Bogotá, Colombia. monica.puyana@utadeo.edu.co.
Edisson TelloBioprospecting Research Group and Bioscience Doctoral Program, Faculty of Engineering, Campus Puente del Común, Universidad de La Sabana, 250001 Chía, Colombia. edisson.tello@unisabana.edu.co.ORCID 0000-0002-6401-8555

Funding

Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación 647/2014Marine Institute PBA/MB/16/01Universidad de La Sabana INGPHD-5-2015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soft corals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) are a diverse group of marine invertebrates that inhabit various marine environments in tropical and subtropical areas. Several species are recognized as prolific sources of compounds with a wide array of biological activities. Recent advances in analytical techniques, supported by robust statistical analyses, have allowed the analysis and characterization of the metabolome present in a single living organism. In this study, a liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry metabolomic approach was applied to analyze the metabolite composition of 28 soft corals present in the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Multivariate data analysis was used to correlate the chemical fingerprints of soft corals with their cytotoxic activity against tumor cell lines for anticancer purpose. Some diterpenoids were identified as specific markers to discriminate between cytotoxic and non-cytotoxic crude extracts of soft corals against tumor cell lines. In the models generated from the comparative analysis of PLS-DA for tumor lines, A549 and SiHa, the diterpene 13-keto-1,11-dolabell-3(E),7(E),12(18)-triene yielded a high score in the variable importance in projection. These results highlight the potential of metabolomic approaches towards the identification of cytotoxic agents against cancer of marine origin. This workflow can be useful in several studies, mainly those that are time consuming, such as traditional bioprospecting of marine natural products.

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MetabolomicsAnimalsAnthozoaAntineoplastic AgentsCaribbean RegionCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalColombiaGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryMultivariate AnalysisAntineoplastic Agentscytotoxic activityditerpenesLC-HRMSsmetabolomicsPseudoplexaura flagellosasoft-corals

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PMCPMC6356725

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