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Title: | Study of the interaction of antiplasmodial strychnine derivatives with the glycine receptor | Authors: | Philippe, G Nguyen, L Angenot, L Frederich, M Moonen, G Tits, M RIGO, Jean-Michel |
Issue Date: | 2006 | Source: | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, 530(1-2). p. 15-22 | Abstract: | Strychnos icaja Baill. (Loganiaccae) is a liana found in Central Africa known to be an arrow and ordeal poison but also used by traditional medicine to treat malaria. Recently, many dimeric or trimeric indolomonoterpenic alkaloids with antiplasmodial properties have been isolated from its rootbark. Since these alkaloids are derivatives of strychnine, it was important, in view of their potential use as antimalarial drugs, to assess their possible convulsant strychnine-like properties. In that regard, their interaction with the strychnine-sensitive glycine receptor was investigated by whole-cell patch-clamp recordings on glycine-gated currents in mouse spinal cord neurons in culture and by [H-3]strychnine competition assays on membranes from adult rat spinal cord. These experiments were carried out on sungucine (leading compound of the chemical class) and on the antiplasmodial strychnogucine B (dimeric) and strychnohexamine (trimeric). In comparison with strychnine, all compounds interact with a very poor efficacy and only at concentrations > I mu M with both [H-3]strychnine binding and glycine-gated currents. Furthermore, the effects of strychnine and protostrychnine, a monomeric alkaloid (without antiplasmodial activity) also isolated from S. icaja and differing from strychnine only by a cycle opening, were compared in the same way. The weak interaction of protostrychnine confirms the importance of the G cycle ring structure in strychnine for its binding to the glycine receptor and its antagonist properties. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | Keywords: | stryehnine; glycine receptor; patch-clarnp; [H-3]strychnine binding; antimalarial drug; RAT SPINAL-CORD; ICAJA ROOTS; BRAIN-STEM; BINDING; ALKALOIDS; NEURONS; SITES | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/1393 | ISSN: | 0014-2999 | e-ISSN: | 1879-0712 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.11.048 | ISI #: | 000234704700003 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2007 |
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