Ethnopharmacology and bioinformatic combination for leads discovery: application to phospholipase A(2) inhibitors

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, i...

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Published in:Phytochemistry (Oxford) 2001-11, Vol.58 (6), p.865-874
Main Authors: Bernard, P, Scior, T, Didier, B, Hibert, M, Berthon, J Y
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
Computational Biology
Drug Design
Enzyme Inhibitors - chemistry
Enzyme Inhibitors - pharmacology
Ethnopharmacology
Models, Molecular
Molecular Structure
Phospholipases A - antagonists & inhibitors
Plant Extracts - chemistry
Species Specificity
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Summary: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(2). 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.
ISSN:0031-9422
DOI:10.1016/S0031-9422(01)00312-0