Anti-<i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> Effect of Fatty Acids from <i>Porcelia macrocarpa</i> Is Related to Interactions of Cell Membranes at Different Microdomains as Assessed Using Langmuir Monolayers
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Abstract
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Chagas disease, a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is an important health problem affecting more than 8 million people worldwide. The only available treatments, benznidazole and nifurtimox, display high toxicity and reduced efficacy in the chronic phase of the disease. To find new natural products with anti- T. cruzi activity, the CH 2 Cl 2 extract of Porcelia macrocarpa R. E. Fries (Annonaceae) seeds was subjected to bioactivity-guided fractionation. Through several chromatographic steps, one group consisting of a mixture of 10 chemically related fatty acids ( 1 – 10 ) was obtained. This group showed activity against trypomastigote forms with an EC 50 of 4.0 μg/mL, similar to the standard drug benznidazole (EC 50 = 3.9 μg/mL). It also showed activity against the intracellular amastigotes, with an EC 50 of 0.5 μg/mL, close to the efficacy of benznidazole (EC 50 = 0.9 μg/mL). In addition, the mixture of 1 – 10 showed no toxicity against murine fibroblasts (CC 50 > 200 μg/mL), resulting in SI > 49 and >416 in trypomastigotes and amastigotes, respectively. The interaction of the mixture with the protozoan membrane models was also assessed with Langmuir monolayers composed of three phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) lipids with different degrees of acyl chain unsaturation and in the presence of mucins. Compounds 1–10 favorably interact with all tested lipids, with maximum insertion pressure (MIP) values above 40 mN/m and positive synergy values, suggesting penetration through the mucins. Furthermore, the mixture has a higher affinity for monounsaturated lipids bound to mucins, with an MIP value of 57.59 ± 2.59 mN/m. Based on these results, the effect of compounds 1 – 10 against T. cruzi can be related to interactions with the parasite cell membranes.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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