The Three Pillars of Natural Product Dereplication. Alkaloids from the Bulbs of (C. Presl) J.F. Macbr. as a Preliminary Test Case.
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Date publication
janvier 2021
Journal
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr NUZILLARD Jean-Marc
Tous les auteurs :
Lianza M, Leroy R, Machado Rodrigues C, Borie N, Sayagh C, Remy S, Kuhn S, Renault JH, Nuzillard JM
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Résumé
The role and importance of the identification of natural products are discussed in the perspective of the study of secondary metabolites. The rapid identification of already reported compounds, or structural dereplication, is recognized as a key element in natural product chemistry. The biological taxonomy of metabolite producing organisms, the knowledge of metabolite molecular structures, and the availability of metabolite spectroscopic signatures are considered as the three pillars of structural dereplication. The role and the construction of databases is illustrated by references to the KNApSAcK, UNPD, CSEARCH, and COCONUT databases, and by the importance of calculated taxonomic and spectroscopic data as substitutes for missing or lost original ones. Two NMR-based tools, the PNMRNP database that derives from UNPD, and KnapsackSearch, a database generator that provides taxonomically focused libraries of compounds, are proposed to the community of natural product chemists. The study of the alkaloids from , a plant from the Andes used in traditional medicine for antibacterial and anticancer actions, has given the opportunity to test different approaches to dereplication, favoring the use of publicly available data sources.
Mots clés
databases, dereplication, molecular structures, natural products, spectroscopy, taxonomy
Référence
Molecules. 2021 Jan 26;26(3):