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ArticleAMB Express2023

Antimicrobial, antiproliferative activities and molecular docking of metabolites from Alternaria alternata.

Heba T Khazaal, Mohamed T Khazaal, Ahmed S Abdel-Razek, Ahmed A Hamed, Hassan Y Ebrahim, Reham R Ibrahim, Mokhtar Bishr, Yara E Mansour, Rabab A El Dib, Hesham S M Soliman

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Article in AMB Express, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heba T KhazaalDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Mohamed T KhazaalBotany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Ahmed S Abdel-RazekMicrobial Chemistry Department, National Research Center, 33 El-Buhouth Street, Giza, 12622, Egypt.
Ahmed A HamedMicrobial Chemistry Department, National Research Center, 33 El-Buhouth Street, Giza, 12622, Egypt.
Hassan Y EbrahimDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Reham R IbrahimDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Mokhtar BishrPlant General Manager and Technical Director of the Arab Company for Pharmaceuticals and Medicinal, Plants, Cairo, Egypt.
Yara E MansourPharmaceutical Organic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Rabab A El DibDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt.
Hesham S M SolimanDepartment of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Helwan University, Ain-Helwan, Cairo, 11795, Egypt. hesham.soliman@ejust.edu.eg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7026-2194
Helwan University · EGEgypt-Japan University of Science and Technology · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endophytic fungi allied to plants have sparked substantial promise in discovering new bioactive compounds. In this study, propagation of the endophytic fungus Alternaria alternata HE11 obtained from Colocasia esculanta leaves led to the isolation of Ergosterol (1), β-Sitosterol (2), Ergosterol peroxide (3), in addition to three dimeric naphtho-γ-pyrones, namely Fonsecinone A (4), Asperpyrone C (5), and Asperpyrone B (6), which were isolated from genus Alternaria for the first time. Structures of the isolated compounds were established on the basis of extensive 1D and 2D NMR and, MS measurements. The ethyl acetate extract, as well as compounds 1, 3, 4 and 6 were evaluated for their antimicrobial activity using agar well-diffusion and broth microdilution assays. Molecular docking study was carried out to explore the pharmacophoric moieties that governed the binding orientation of antibacterial active compounds to multidrug efflux transporter AcrB and the ATP binding site to E. coli DNA gyrase using MOE software. Results revealed that the most active antibacterial compounds 4 and 6 bind with high affinity in the phenylalanine-rich cage and are surrounded with other hydrophobic residues. The antiproliferative activity of all isolated compounds was in vitro evaluated using the human prostatic adenocarcinoma cell lines DU-145, PC-3, PC-3 M, 22Rv1 and CWR-R1ca adopting MTT assay. Compound 4 was the most active against almost all tested cell lines, with IC

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Alternaria alternataAntimicrobial activityColocasia esculanta leavesHuman prostatic adenocarcinomaMolecular docking

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