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  2. Amakusamine from a Psammocinia sp. Sponge: Isolation, Synthesis, and SAR Study on the Inhibition of RANKL-Induced Formation of Multinuclear Osteoclasts

Amakusamine from a Psammocinia sp. Sponge: Isolation, Synthesis, and SAR Study on the Inhibition of RANKL-Induced Formation of Multinuclear Osteoclasts

  • J Nat Prod. 2021 Oct 22;84(10):2738-2743. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c00758.
Yuka Maeyama 1 Yuta Nakashima 2 Hikaru Kato 1 Yuki Hitora 1 Kazuhiko Maki 1 Natsumi Inada 1 Shunya Murakami 1 Tomoaki Inazumi 3 Yuji Ise 4 Yukihiko Sugimoto 3 Hayato Ishikawa 5 Sachiko Tsukamoto 1
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Natural Medicines, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.
  • 2 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
  • 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.
  • 4 Sesoko Station, University of the Ryukyus, 3422 Sesoko, Motobu, Okinawa 905-0227, Japan.
  • 5 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba 260-8675, Japan.
Abstract

A simple methylenedioxy dibromoindole alkaloid, amakusamine (1), was isolated from a marine Sponge of the genus Psammocinia, and its structure was determined from spectroscopic data, time-dependent density-functional theory calculations, and synthesis. Compound 1 inhibited the receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL)-induced formation of multinuclear osteoclasts with an IC50 value of 10.5 μM in RAW264 cells. The structure-activity relationship of 1 was also investigated with synthetic derivatives.

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