Antichagasic Activity of Komaroviquinone Is Due to Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species Catalyzed by Trypanosoma cruzi Old Yellow Enzyme

Author:

Uchiyama Nahoko12,Kabututu Zakayi3,Kubata Bruno K.4,Kiuchi Fumiyuki5,Ito Michiho1,Nakajima-Shimada Junko6,Aoki Takashi6,Ohkubo Kei7,Fukuzumi Shunichi7,Martin Samuel K.4,Honda Gisho1,Urade Yoshihiro3

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

2. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto 610-0395, Japan

3. Department of Molecular Behavioral Biology, Osaka Bioscience Institute, Osaka 565-0874, Japan

4. United States Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Unit 64109, APO AE 09831-64109, Kenya

5. Tsukuba Medicinal Plant Research Station, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tsukuba 305-0843, Japan

6. Department of Molecular and Cellular Parasitology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan

7. Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, SORST, JST, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT A novel potent trypanocidal diterpene, komaroviquinone, was reduced by Trypanosoma cruzi old yellow enzyme (TcOYE) to its semiquinone radical. The reductase activity in trypanosome lysates was completely immunoabsorbed by anti-TcOYE antibody. Since TcOYE is expressed throughout the T. cruzi life cycle, komaroviquinone is an interesting candidate for developing new antichagasic drugs.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology

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