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| DOI | 10.3390/MOLECULES26123760 | ||||
| Año | 2021 | ||||
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Neurodegenerative disorders, including Tauopathies that involve tau protein, base their pathological mechanism on forming proteinaceous aggregates, which has a deleterious effect on cells triggering an inflammatory response. Moreover, tau inhibitors can exert their mechanism of action through noncovalent and covalent interactions. Thus, Michael's addition appears as a feasible type of interaction involving an alpha, beta unsaturated carbonyl moiety to avoid pathological confirmation and further cytotoxicity. Moreover, we isolated three compounds from Antarctic lichens Cladonia cariosa and Himantormia lugubris: protolichesterinic acid (1), fumarprotocetraric acid (2), and lichesterinic acid (3). The maleimide cysteine labeling assay showed that compounds 1, 2, and 3 inhibit at 50 mu M, but compounds 2 and 3 are statistically significant. Based on its inhibition capacity, we decided to test compound 2 further. Thus, our results suggest that compound 2 remodel soluble oligomers and diminish beta sheet content, as demonstrated through ThT experiments. Hence, we added externally treated oligomers with compound 2 to demonstrate that they are harmless in cell culture. First, the morphology of cells in the presence of aggregates does not suffer evident changes compared to the control. Additionally, the externally added aggregates do not provoke a substantial LDH release compared to the control, indicating that treated oligomers do not provoke membrane damage in cell culture compared with aggregates alone. Thus, in the present work, we demonstrated that Michael's acceptors found in lichens could serve as a scaffold to explore different mechanisms of action to turn tau aggregates into harmless species.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Gonzalez, Camila | Mujer |
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
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| 2 | Cartagena, Constanza | Mujer |
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
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| 3 | CABALLERO-AVIAL, LEONARDO ANTONIO | Hombre |
Universidad de Santiago de Chile - Chile
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| 4 | MELO-LEDERMANN, FRANCISCO JAVIER | Hombre |
Universidad de Santiago de Chile - Chile
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| 5 | ARECHE-MEDINA, CARLOS ALBERTO | Hombre |
Universidad de Chile - Chile
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| 6 | Cornejo, Alberto | Hombre |
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
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| FONDECYT |
| FONDEQUIP |
| Dicyt-USACH |
| Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH) |
| FONDECYT program |
| ANID-Chile |
| Institut chilien de l'Antarctique |
| Agradecimiento |
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| AC and CA acknowledge the "Instituto Antartico Chileno (INACH)" RT_18-19. FM kindly acknowledges the ANID-Chile and its Fondecyt Program through the project No 1201013 for financial support. The Fondequip EQM 130149 and EQM 170111 and the Dicyt-Usach 041831MH-Postdoc projects contributed to this work with additional support. |
| Funding: AC and CA acknowledge the “Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH)” RT_18-19. FM kindly acknowledges the ANID-Chile and its Fondecyt Program through the project N◦1201013 for financial support. The Fondequip EQM 130149 and EQM 170111 and the Dicyt-Usach 041831MH-Postdoc projects contributed to this work with additional support. |