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Amila Pramisandi1,2, Kazuyuki Dobashi3, Mihoko Mori1,3, Kenichi Nonaka1,3, Atsuko Matsumoto1,3, Toshiyuki Tokiwa3, Mayuka Higo3, Eri Amalia4, Arif Nurkanto4,5, Daniel Ken Inaoka4,6,7, Danang Waluyo2, Kiyoshi Kita4,6,7, Tomoyoshi Nozaki4, Satoshi Ōmura3, Kazuro Shiomi1,3.
Abstract
An Indonesian soil fungus, Talaromyces pinophilus BioMCC-f.T.3979 was cultured to find novel scaffolds of Plasmodium falciparum dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (PfDHODH) inhibitors. We obtained altenusin (1), which inhibits PfDHODH, with an IC50 value of 5.9 μM, along with other metabolites: mitorubrinol (2) and mitorubrinic acid (3). Compounds 1 and 2 inhibited PfDHODH but displayed no activity against the human orthologue. They also inhibited P. falciparum 3D7 cell growth in vitro. Compound 3 showed little PfDHODH inhibitory activity or cell growth inhibitory activity.Entities:
Keywords: Plasmodium falciparum; Talaromyces pinophilus; dihydroorotate dehydrogenase; malaria
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32669511 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2019.11.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gen Appl Microbiol ISSN: 0022-1260 Impact factor: 1.452