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- Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health issue, necessitating the discovery of new drugs to combat it.
- Researchers tested 54 marine invertebrate extracts for their ability to inhibit the bacteria that causes TB.
- Two extracts were further analyzed, leading to the identification of bioactive compounds called bengamides, which demonstrated significant growth-inhibitory effects against TB, marking them as potential new treatments.
Article Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health crisis, requiring the urgent identification of new anti-mycobacterial drugs. We screened several organic and aqueous marine invertebrate extracts for their in vitro inhibitory activity against the causative organism, . Here, we report the results obtained for 54 marine invertebrate extracts. The chemical components of two of the extracts were dereplicated, using H NMR and HR-LCMS with GNPS molecular networking, and these extracts were further subjected to an activity-guided isolation process to purify the bioactive components. yielded heteronemin and was found to produce the bengamide class of compounds, of which bengamides P and Q were isolated, while a new derivative, bengamide S , was putatively identified and its structure predicted, based on the similarity of its MS/MS fragmentation pattern to those of other bengamides. The isolated bioactive metabolites and semi-pure fractions exhibited growth inhibitory activity, in the range <0.24 to 62.50 µg/mL. This study establishes the bengamides as potent antitubercular compounds, with the first report of whole-cell antitubercular activity of bengamides P and Q .
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