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Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most widespread parasites in the world. Lipid metabolism is important in the intracellular stage of T. gondii. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), a key enzyme for the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acid is predicted to exist in T...
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The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27180571 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.2.139 |
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author | Hao, Pan Alaraj, Intisar Q. M. Dulayymi, Juma’a R. Al Baird, Mark S. Liu, Jing Liu, Qun |
author_facet | Hao, Pan Alaraj, Intisar Q. M. Dulayymi, Juma’a R. Al Baird, Mark S. Liu, Jing Liu, Qun |
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description | Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most widespread parasites in the world. Lipid metabolism is important in the intracellular stage of T. gondii. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), a key enzyme for the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acid is predicted to exist in T. gondii. Sterculic acid has been shown to specifically inhibit SCD activity. Here, we examined whether sterculic acid and its methyl ester analogues exhibit anti-T. gondii effects in vitro. T. gondii-infected Vero cells were disintegrated at 36 hr because of the propagation and egress of intracellular tachyzoites. All test compounds inhibited tachyzoite propagation and egress, reducing the number of ruptured Vero cells by the parasites. Sterculic acid and the methyl esters also inhibited replication of intracellular tachyzoites in HFF cells. Among the test compounds, sterculic acid showed the most potent activity against T. gondii, with an EC(50) value of 36.2 μM, compared with EC(50) values of 248-428 μM for the methyl esters. Our study demonstrated that sterculic acid and its analogues are effective in inhibition of T. gondii growth in vitro, suggesting that these compounds or analogues targeting SCD could be effective agents for the treatment of toxoplasmosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-48709722016-05-18 Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii Hao, Pan Alaraj, Intisar Q. M. Dulayymi, Juma’a R. Al Baird, Mark S. Liu, Jing Liu, Qun Korean J Parasitol Original Article Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most widespread parasites in the world. Lipid metabolism is important in the intracellular stage of T. gondii. Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD), a key enzyme for the synthesis of unsaturated fatty acid is predicted to exist in T. gondii. Sterculic acid has been shown to specifically inhibit SCD activity. Here, we examined whether sterculic acid and its methyl ester analogues exhibit anti-T. gondii effects in vitro. T. gondii-infected Vero cells were disintegrated at 36 hr because of the propagation and egress of intracellular tachyzoites. All test compounds inhibited tachyzoite propagation and egress, reducing the number of ruptured Vero cells by the parasites. Sterculic acid and the methyl esters also inhibited replication of intracellular tachyzoites in HFF cells. Among the test compounds, sterculic acid showed the most potent activity against T. gondii, with an EC(50) value of 36.2 μM, compared with EC(50) values of 248-428 μM for the methyl esters. Our study demonstrated that sterculic acid and its analogues are effective in inhibition of T. gondii growth in vitro, suggesting that these compounds or analogues targeting SCD could be effective agents for the treatment of toxoplasmosis. The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine 2016-04 2016-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4870972/ /pubmed/27180571 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.2.139 Text en © 2016, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hao, Pan Alaraj, Intisar Q. M. Dulayymi, Juma’a R. Al Baird, Mark S. Liu, Jing Liu, Qun Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title | Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title_full | Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title_fullStr | Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title_full_unstemmed | Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title_short | Sterculic Acid and Its Analogues Are Potent Inhibitors of Toxoplasma gondii |
title_sort | sterculic acid and its analogues are potent inhibitors of toxoplasma gondii |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27180571 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2016.54.2.139 |
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