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Inhibition of p-Aminobenzoate and Folate Syntheses in Plants and Apicomplexan Parasites by Natural Product Rubreserine.

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Glutamine amidotransferase/aminodeoxychorismate synthase (GAT-ADCS) is a bifunctional enzyme involved in the synthesis of p-aminobenzoate, a central component part of folate cofactors. GAT-ADCS is found in eukaryotic organisms autonomous for folate biosynthesis, such as plants or parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa. Based on an automated screening to search for new inhibitors of folate biosynthesis, we found that rubreserine was able to inhibit the glutamine amidotransferase activity of the plant GAT-ADCS with an apparent IC(50) of about 8 μm. The growth rates of Arabidopsis thaliana, Toxoplasma gondii, and Plasmodium falciparum were inhibited by rubreserine with respective IC(50) values of 65, 20, and 1 μm. The correlation between folate biosynthesis and growth inhibition was studied with Arabidopsis and Toxoplasma. In both organisms, the folate content was decreased by 40-50% in the presence of rubreserine. In both organisms, the addition of p-aminobenzoate or 5-formyltetrahydrofolate in the external medium restored the growth for inhibitor concentrations up to the IC(50) value, indicating that, within this range of concentrations, rubreserine was specific for folate biosynthesis. Rubreserine appeared to be more efficient than sulfonamides, antifolate drugs known to inhibit the invasion and proliferation of T. gondii in human fibroblasts. Altogether, these results validate the use of the bifunctional GAT-ADCS as an efficient drug target in eukaryotic cells and indicate that the chemical structure of rubreserine presents interesting anti-parasitic (toxoplasmosis, malaria) potential.
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hal-00702251 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Djeneb Camara, Cordelia Bisanz, Caroline Barette, Jeroen van Daele, Esmare Human, et al.. Inhibition of p-Aminobenzoate and Folate Syntheses in Plants and Apicomplexan Parasites by Natural Product Rubreserine.. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2012, 287 (26), pp.22367-76. ⟨10.1074/jbc.M112.365833⟩. ⟨hal-00702251⟩
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