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Abstract

A Lipoaminopeptaibol Secreted by Alkalophilic Fungus Emericellopsis alkalina Demonstrates a Strong Cytotoxic Effect against Tumor Cell Lines †

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Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
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Gause Institute of New Antibiotics, Moscow 119021, Russia
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Institute of Ecological and Agricultural Biology (XBio), Tyumen State University, Tyumen 625003, Russia
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Presented at the 2nd Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (MMCS): Facing Novel Challenges in Drug Discovery, Barcelona, Spain, 15–17 May 2019.
Proceedings 2019, 22(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019022004
Published: 6 August 2019

Abstract

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Soil fungi are known to produce and secrete antibiotics with a strong antimicrobial effect towards eukaryotic organisms. In many occasions, these compounds belong to peptides that are products of non-ribosomal biosynthesis and are called peptaibols. Many peptaibols are cytotoxic and some of them suppress tumor cell lines much better than normal cells by inducing calcium-mediated apoptosis. The main antimicrobial lipoaminopeptaibol—emericellipsin A—isolated from the fungus Emericellopsis alkalina strain VKPM F-1428, which demonstrates promising antifungal activity against different fungal taxons,has been found to exhibit selective cytotoxic activity against HepG2 and Hela cell lines (EC50 2.8 and 0.5 μM, respectively) in MTT assays in vitro. This result corresponds to the standard antitumor antibiotic doxorubicin, which has an EC50 value of 440 nM. In a fibroblast toxicity test, emericellipsin A exhibited less cytotoxic activity than doxorubicin (EC50 14 and 0.34 μM, respectively). Therefore, it is less toxic to normal cells than doxirubicin (~40 times), but it yields a more potent cytotoxic effect on tumor cell lines. That is why emericellipsin A can be considered for future more detailed investigations to be an effective antitumor substance.

Funding

This work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 18-74-10073).

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Rogozhin, E.; Sadykova, V. A Lipoaminopeptaibol Secreted by Alkalophilic Fungus Emericellopsis alkalina Demonstrates a Strong Cytotoxic Effect against Tumor Cell Lines. Proceedings 2019, 22, 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019022004

AMA Style

Rogozhin E, Sadykova V. A Lipoaminopeptaibol Secreted by Alkalophilic Fungus Emericellopsis alkalina Demonstrates a Strong Cytotoxic Effect against Tumor Cell Lines. Proceedings. 2019; 22(1):4. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019022004

Chicago/Turabian Style

Rogozhin, Eugene, and Vera Sadykova. 2019. "A Lipoaminopeptaibol Secreted by Alkalophilic Fungus Emericellopsis alkalina Demonstrates a Strong Cytotoxic Effect against Tumor Cell Lines" Proceedings 22, no. 1: 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019022004

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