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Zebrafish-based identification of the antiseizure nucleoside inosine from the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi

Published inPLOS ONE, vol. 13, no. 4, e0196195
Publication date2018
Abstract

With the goal of identifying neuroactive secondary metabolites from microalgae, a microscale in vivo zebrafish bioassay for antiseizure activity was used to evaluate bioactivities of the diatom Skeletonema marinoi, which was recently revealed as being a promising source of drug-like small molecules. A freeze-dried culture of S. marinoi was extracted by solvents with increasing polarities (hexane, dichloromethane, methanol and water) and these extracts were screened for anticonvulsant activity using a larval zebrafish epilepsy model with seizures induced by the GABAA antagonist pentylenetetrazole. The methanolic extract of S. marinoi exhibited significant anticonvulsant activity and was chosen for bioassay-guided fractionation, which associated the bioactivity with minor constituents. The key anticonvulsant constituent was identified as the nucleoside inosine, a well-known adenosine receptor agonist with previously reported antiseizure activities in mice and rat epilepsy models, but not reported to date as a bioactive constituent of microalgae. In addition, a UHPLC-HRMS metabolite profiling was used for dereplication of the other constituents of S. marinoi. Structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated by nuclear magnetic resonance and high-resolution spectrometry. These results highlight the potential of zebrafish-based screening and bioassay-guided fractionation to identify neuroactive marine natural products.

Keywords
  • Animals
  • Anticonvulsants/chemistry/isolation & purification/therapeutic use
  • Chemical Fractionation
  • Diatoms/chemistry
  • Disease Models
  • Animal
  • Inosine/chemistry/isolation & purification/therapeutic use
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pentylenetetrazole/adverse effects
  • Seizures/chemically induced/drug therapy
  • Zebrafish
Citation (ISO format)
BRILLATZ, Théo et al. Zebrafish-based identification of the antiseizure nucleoside inosine from the marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi. In: PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, n° 4, p. e0196195. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196195
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