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Stephenie Alvarado1, Bracken F Roberts, Amy E Wright, Debopam Chakrabarti.
Abstract
A library of enriched marine natural product fractions was screened for their antiplasmodial activity using a SYBR green I fluorescence-based assay. Fractions derived from a sponge of the genus Spongosorites exhibited potent inhibition of Plasmodium falciparum growth. This genus of sponge has been reported to contain the nortopsentin and topsentin class of bis-indole imidazole alkaloids. This is the first report of nortopsentin A inhibiting parasite growth at the trophozoite stage at submicromolar 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC(50)).Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23403429 PMCID: PMC3632953 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02091-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191