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Record W4408648634 · doi:10.3390/plants14060954

Exploring the Anti-Chagas Activity of Zanthoxylum chiloperone’s Seedlings Through Metabolomics and Protein–Ligand Docking

2025· article· en· W4408648634 on OpenAlexafffund
Ninfa Vera de Bilbao, Ryland T. Giebelhaus, Ryan P. Dias, Marı́a Elena Ferreira, Miguel Martínez, Lorea Velasco‐Carneros, Seo Lin Nam, A. Paulina de la Mata, Jean‐Didier Maréchal, Ahissan Innocent Adou, Gloria Yaluff, Elva Serna, Muriel Sylvestre, Susana Torres, Alicia Schinini, Mario Ricardo Galeano-Chena, Alain Fournet, James J. Harynuk, Gerardo Cebrián‐Torrejón

Bibliographic record

VenuePlants · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTrypanosoma species research and implications
Canadian institutionsThe Metabolomics Innovation CentreUniversity of Alberta
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchGenome AlbertaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaConsejo Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaGenome Canada
KeywordsRutaceaeAlkaloidChemistryTrypanosoma cruziMetabolomicsSqualenePhytochemicalLanosterolBiochemistryTraditional medicineBiologyStereochemistryBotanyChromatographySterol

Abstract

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This publication reports the controlled cultivation of Zanthoxylum chiloperone var. angustifolium Engl. (Rutaceae) in several growth substrates under controlled greenhouse conditions. This plant is well-known for its anti-Chagas (trypanocidal) activity, related to the presence of several β-carboline alkaloids. The metabolomic study of Z. chiloperone seedlings over two years of growth (2018–2020) was performed using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC × GC-TOFMS). The canthin-6-one alkaloids, canthin-6-one and 5-methoxy-canthin-6-one, were putatively identified in Z. chiloperone extracts. Finally, in vitro and in silico studies of trypanocidal activity were performed, suggesting that canthin-6-one alkaloids could interact with the main pharmacological targets against Trypanosoma cruzi, cruzain protease, dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, lanosterol 14-alpha-demethylase, farnesyl diphosphate, and squalene synthases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.528
Threshold uncertainty score0.270

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.097
GPT teacher head0.322
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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