Ethnopharmacology and bioinformatic combination for leads discovery:: application to phospholipase A2 inhibitors

被引：84

作者：

Bernard, P

Scior, T

Didier, B

Hibert, M

Berthon, JY

机构：

[1] GREENPHARMA S A, F-45067 Orleans 2, France

[2] Univ Americas Puebla, Cholula 72820, Mexico

[3] Fac Pharm, UMR CNRS, Lab Pharmacochim Commun Cellulaire, F-67400 Illkirch Graffenstaden, France

来源：

PHYTOCHEMISTRY | 2001年 / 58卷 / 06期

关键词：

ethnopharmacology; bioinformatic; anti-inflammatory; phospholipase A(2);

D O I：

10.1016/S0031-9422(01)00312-0

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

A program combining ethnopharmacology and bioinformatic approaches has successfully been applied on anti-inflammatory activity. (i) An ethnobotanical study allowed the identification of several plants associated with putative anti-inflammatory properties as potential leads, (ii) On the other hand, it is well known that phospholipase A(2) is a target implicated in the pro-inflammatory process. Thus, (iii) some selected plant extracts were experimentally tested on phospholipase A,. Finally, (iv) these experimental results combined with bioinformatic tools, such as database exploitation and molecular modeling, allowed to suggest that one compound, betulin and its oxidative form betulinic acid, might be responsible of the anti-PLA(2) activity. This suggestion was confirmed experimentally. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：865 / 874

页数：10

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