Activity of Compounds from Temperate Propolis against Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania mexicana

Activity of Compounds from Temperate Propolis against Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania mexicana

Ethanolic extracts of samples of temperate zone propolis, four from the UK and one from Poland, were tested against three Trypanosoma brucei strains and displayed EC50 values < 20 µg/mL. The extracts were fractionated, from which 12 compounds and one two-component mixture were isolated, and chara...

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Published in:Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 26; no. 13; p. 3912
Main Authors: Alotaibi, Adullah, Ebiloma, Godwin U., Williams, Roderick, Alfayez, Ibrahim A., Natto, Manal J., Alenezi, Sameah, Siheri, Weam, AlQarni, Malik, Igoli, John O., Fearnley, James, De Koning, Harry P., Watson, David G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 26-06-2021
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Subjects:
Carbon
Chromatography
Cinnamic acid
Coumaric acid
Dimethyl ether
Drug resistance
flavonoids
Hydrogen
isolated compounds
Kaempferol
Leishmania mexicana
Mass spectrometry
Mass spectroscopy
Miltefosine
Naringenin
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Parasites
Phenanthridine
Propolis
temperate propolis
Trypanosoma brucei
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:Ethanolic extracts of samples of temperate zone propolis, four from the UK and one from Poland, were tested against three Trypanosoma brucei strains and displayed EC50 values < 20 µg/mL. The extracts were fractionated, from which 12 compounds and one two-component mixture were isolated, and characterized by NMR and high-resolution mass spectrometry, as 3-acetoxypinobanksin, tectochrysin, kaempferol, pinocembrin, 4′-methoxykaempferol, galangin, chrysin, apigenin, pinostrobin, cinnamic acid, coumaric acid, cinnamyl ester/coumaric acid benzyl ester (mixture), 4′,7-dimethoxykaempferol, and naringenin 4′,7-dimethyl ether. The isolated compounds were tested against drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains of T. brucei and Leishmania mexicana, with the highest activities ≤ 15 µM. The most active compounds against T. brucei were naringenin 4′,7 dimethyl ether and 4′methoxy kaempferol with activity of 15–20 µM against the three T. brucei strains. The most active compounds against L. mexicana were 4′,7-dimethoxykaempferol and the coumaric acid ester mixture, with EC50 values of 12.9 ± 3.7 µM and 13.1 ± 1.0 µM. No loss of activity was found with the diamidine- and arsenical-resistant or phenanthridine-resistant T. brucei strains, or the miltefosine-resistant L. mexicana strain; no clear structure activity relationship was observed for the isolated compounds. Temperate propolis yields multiple compounds with anti-kinetoplastid activity.
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ISSN:1420-3049
1420-3049
DOI:10.3390/molecules26133912