Department of Chemical, Center of Exact Sciences, State University of Londrina, PR, Brazil.
Department of Pathological Sciences, Center of Biological Sciences, State University of Londrina, PR, Brazil; Biosciences and Biotechnology Postgraduate Program, Carlos Chagas Institute, ICC/Fiocruz/PR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Toxicol In Vitro. 2022 Feb;78:105267. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2021.105267. Epub 2021 Oct 22.
Grandiflorenic acid (GFA) is one of the main kaurane diterpenes found in different parts of Sphagneticola trilobata. It has several biological activities, especially antiprotozoal action. In turn, Chagas disease is a complex systemic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, and the drugs available to treat it involve significant side effects and impose an urgent need to search for therapeutic alternatives. In this context, our goal was to determine the effect of GFA on trypomastigote and intracellular amastigote forms. Our results showed that GFA treatment led to significantly less viability of trypomastigote forms, with morphological and ultrastructural changes in the parasites treated with IC of GFA (24.60 nM), and larger levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), mitochondrial depolarization, lipid droplets accumulation, presence of autophagic vacuoles, phosphatidylserine exposure, and plasma membrane damage. In addition, the GFA treatment was able to reduce the percentage of infected cells and the number of amastigotes per macrophage (J774A.1) without showing cytotoxicity in mammalian cell lines (J774A.1, LLCMK, THP-1, AMJ2-C11), in addition to increasing TNF-α and reducing IL-6 levels in infected macrophages. In conclusion, the GFA treatment exerted influence on trypomastigote forms through an apoptosis-like mechanism and by eliminating intracellular parasites via TNF-α/ROS pathway, without generating cellular cytotoxicity.
大柱木酸(GFA)是三叶鬼针草不同部位中发现的主要贝壳杉烷二萜之一。它具有多种生物活性,特别是抗原生动物作用。反过来,恰加斯病是一种由原生动物克氏锥虫引起的复杂系统性疾病,可用的治疗药物涉及严重的副作用,并迫切需要寻找治疗替代方法。在这种情况下,我们的目标是确定 GFA 对锥虫和内阿米巴形式的影响。我们的结果表明,GFA 处理导致锥虫形式的活力明显降低,用 GFA 的 IC(24.60 nM)处理的寄生虫发生形态和超微结构变化,并且活性氧(ROS)、线粒体去极化、脂滴积累、自噬空泡、磷脂酰丝氨酸暴露和质膜损伤的水平更大。此外,GFA 处理能够降低感染细胞的百分比和每个巨噬细胞(J774A.1)中的内阿米巴数量,而在哺乳动物细胞系(J774A.1、LLCMK、THP-1、AMJ2-C11)中没有显示细胞毒性,此外,感染的巨噬细胞中 TNF-α 增加和 IL-6 减少。总之,GFA 处理通过类似于细胞凋亡的机制对锥虫形式发挥作用,并通过 TNF-α/ROS 途径消除细胞内寄生虫,而不会产生细胞毒性。
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