Marina Guarachia, Magaly Paza, Rogelio Chuquib, Michel Sauvainc, Ninoska Floresa, Ma Teresa Alvareza, Alberto Giméneza,*
aInstituto de Investigaciones Fármaco Bioquímicas-IIFB, Facultad de Ciencias Farmaceuticas y Bioquímicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, P. O. Box 3239 La Paz, Bolivia,
bComunidad Tacana Santa Rosa de Maravilla, Provincia Abel Iturralde, La Paz, Bolivia
cMisión IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, P. O. Box 9214 La Paz, Bolivia
Key Words: Angostura longiflora; callus; leishmanicidal alkaloids; 2-phenyl-quinoline; Bolivia
ABSTRACT
Angostura longiflora (K.) Kallunki (Rutaceae) is a medicinal wood tree used by Amazonian tribes for the treatment of stomach parasites and leishmaniasis. Cell cultures from leaves of this species were obtained on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with kinetine (kin) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) based on a factorial design, where concentrations of sucrose and phosphate were changed. The increasing of sucrose and phosphate enhanced the specific growth rate from 0.16 to 0.33d-1. The leishmanicidal alkaloid, 2-phenyl-quinoline was isolated from calli and identified by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass (EI) spectra. This is the first report concerning the production, isolation and chemical characterization by NMR and mass spectra of the main alkaloid, in Evanta leaves, 2-phenyl-quinoline from cell cultures of A. longiflora.
Corresponding author: agimenez@megalink.com
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Among the nutritional factors, sucrose is the common carbon source for the plant tissue and cell culture, serving as a principal energy source and a component for biosynthesis[12]. Phosphate has been reported to regulate synthesis of secondary metabolites in plant cell cultures[13]. Here, it was demonstrated that the variation of sucrose and phosphate had a positive effect over biomas growth. When, KH2PO4 and C12H22O11 sources were increased, the production of biomas was also increased compared to the basal MS medium composition. The highest value of cell growth rate was 0.33 day-1 (Figure 1), two-fold the initial growth rate.
According to the results the increasing in the amounts of nutrients enhances the biomas production and might increase the secondary metabolites synthesis[14,15]. The main alkaloid, 2-phenyl-quinolinee was detected by TLC analysis of the organic extract from cell culture (Rf 0.57). It was isolated fromm the raw organic extract using preparative TLC. The 1H NMR spectrum exhibited signals only in the aromatic region, integrating for a total of 11 protons. Att downfield, two doublets, each integrating to one proton, being easily distinguished at δ 8.23 (J=8.6Hzz) and 8.18 (J==7.9Hz), characteristic of the protons in para and peri positions respect to the nitrogen in the quinoline skeleton. A doublet at δ 8.20, (J=7.0HHz), integrating to 2 protons together with two doublet signals, integrating to 3 protons, at δ 7.48 ((J=7.0Hz) and 7.55 (J=7.0Hz) are consistent with a mono substituted aromatic ring, confirming the presence of the phenyl ring mmoiety in carbon 2 in the quinoliine substructurre of 2-phenyll-quinoline (Figure 2).
Mass spectrum, under electron impact mode of the substance showed a molecular ion peak at m/z 2055 (80%) which was in agreement with the molecular formula C15H11N (Calc. 205.08911, observed 2005.0890), compatible with the 2-phenyl-quinoline the main alkaloid reported from leaves and bark from A. longiflora, it is found in 0.15% (w/w) aproximately from dry leaves[5]. The isolation of this component was about 0.06% (w/w) from dried cells.
Studies performed on leaves extracts from the tree growing in nature showed that is found together with at least other 5 minor quinoline alkaloids [5].
In vitro optimization of alkaloids production in cell cultures using elicitors, and simultaneous analysis of the minor chemical components are currently being done.
Materials and Methods
Plant material and cell culture
Specimens of A. longiflora K. kallunki were collected in Santa Rosa de Maravilla community, Bolivia (S13°56’587, W0.68°00’308) and they were deposited at the Bolivia National Herbarium (Voucher specimen SD17).
Leaves of young plants were surface-sterilized and dissected in order to inoculate on Murashige and Skoog medium. MS medium consist on (mg/L): NH4NO3 1650, H3BO3 6.2, CaCl2 332.2, CoCl2 0.025, CuSO4·6H2O 0.025, Na2EDTA 37.26, FeSO4·7H2O 27.8, MgSO4 180.7, MnSO4·H2O 16.9, Na2MoO4·2H2O 0.25, KI 0.83, KNO3 1900, KH2PO4 170, ZnSO4·H2O 8.6, myo-inositol 100, nicotine acid 0.5, pyridoxine·HCl 0.5, thiamine·HCl 0.1, glycine 2, agar 8000, sucrose 30000, supplemented with kinetine (0.1 ppm) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (5 ppm). All the chemicals used were of analytical grade (Sigma, Germany) except sucrose. The pH was adjusted to 5.8 and then the culture medium was autoclaved at 121 ºC for 20 min.
The cell lines were maintained at 28±2 ºC into an acclimated darkness-chamber (Paz et al., 2007) and the callus were re-inoculated in fresh medium every 25 to 30 days.
22 Factorial design for biomass optimization
Three experiments were performed in triplicate inoculating approximately 0.5 g of 4-5 weeks-old callus on the middle of petri dishes with MS medium. The composition in g/L of sucrose and mg/L of phosphate was modified as follow: 1) 30 and 170, 2) 40 and 170, 3) 30 and 227, and finally 4) 40 and 227, respectively. The other constituents were kept constant. The maximum growth rate was analyzed by using response surface methodology. This allowed eficient fitting and checking of the second-degree polynomial model which was used to estimate the predicted response. STATISTICA v.6 (StatSoft Inc., USA) was applied for the analysis of statistical data. All results were analyzed with factorial ANOVA (p ≥ 0.05).
Specific cell growth rate
]]> Cellular growth was determined by fresh weight every 7 days for a period of 35 days. The growth indexes were calculated according to the formula: GI = mi/mo, where m0 and mi (g) are the initial and final callus fresh weight, respectively.Extraction and characterization of 2-phenyl-quinoline from cell culture.
The calluses were dried at 60 ºC until constant weight. The dried cells were homogenized in a mortar (8.77 g) and then, extraction was made with dichloromethane (10:1 v/w) for 48 h in dark conditions at room temperature. The extract obtained was filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure at 25 ºC. The residue (57.23 mg, 0.65%) was analyzed by TLC (Thin Layer Chromatography) using silica gel aluminum coated plates (250 µm, Whatman, Germany) eluted with the system n-Hexane:CH2Cl2(8:2), the visualization of spots was done by UV (254 and 366nm). The main alkaloid, 2-phenyl-quinoline was detected as dark spot comparing with a reference substance (Sigma-Aldrich 299650). The crude extract was analyzed by PTLC (1mm, glass plates Merck) and eluted with the system n-Hexane:Diethyl ether (8:2, three elutions). The upper band was isolated using CH2Cl2and the residue obtained upon evaporation (4.89 mg, 0.06%, from dry callus) was analyzed at 400 MHz NMR (Bruker, CDCl3, δ 7.24ppm) δ 7.85 (1H, d, J=8.6Hz, H3); 8.23 (1H, brd, J=8.6Hz, H4); 7.81(1H, brd, J=8.1Hz, H6); 7.51 (1H, m, H7); 7.76 (1H, t, J=7.9Hz, H8); 8.18 (1H, brd, J=7.9Hz, H9); 8.20 (2H, d, J=7.0Hz, H2’ and 6’); 7.55 (2H, t, J=7.0Hz, H3’ and 5’); 7.48 (1H, t, J=7.0Hz, H4’). EI-MS and HR-EI-MS were recorded on a Micromass Autospec spectrometer.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors gratefully acknowledge the “Jeunes Equipe” (IRD-BIOLEISH), for financial support. The programs UMSA-SIDA/SAREC and AECID-PCI (A/010794/07) project for chromatographic and spectroscopic support are also grateful.
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