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Bioprospection of marine siderophores aiming to iron overload chelation therapy

Grant number: 13/13166-4
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research
Start date: July 01, 2014
End date: December 31, 2014
Field of knowledge:Health Sciences - Pharmacy - Pharmacognosy
Principal Investigator:Breno Pannia Esposito
Grantee:Breno Pannia Esposito
Host Investigator: Robert John Capon
Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: University of Queensland, St Lucia (UQ), Australia  

Abstract

Iron overload is responsible for a plethora of tissue damages, all of them due to the onset of labile pools of iron that include redox-active forms of this metal in the organism. Ideal ligands for iron chelation therapy should be able to penetrate the overloaded tissue, bound the metal as a stable, non-redox-active form, ferry it out from cells and transfer it to circulatory chelators (either xenobiotic or transferrin). In this project the prospection of new marine chelators for iron is pursued, allying the expertises of a group dedicated to the prospection of natural marine products with a group dedicated to iron overload therapy. This is proposed as a means to contribute to the development of new clinical chelators for iron overload diseases. Also, the proponent intends to get hands-on experience on chromatographic techniques for the obtention of active natural products, with the aim of procuring new iron chelators specially among Brazilian marine organisms. (AU)

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Scientific publications
(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
KALANSURIYA, PABASARA; QUEZADA, MICHELLE; ESPOSITO, BRENO P.; CAPON, ROBERT J.. Talarazines A-E: Noncytotoxic Iron(III) Chelators from an Australian Mud Dauber Wasp-Associated Fungus, Talaromyces sp (CMB-W045). Journal of Natural Products, v. 80, n. 3, SI, p. 609-615, . (13/13166-4)
SHANG, ZHUO; LI, LI; ESPOSITO, BRENO P.; SALIM, ANGELA A.; KHALIL, ZEINAB G.; QUEZADA, MICHELLE; BERNHARDT, PAUL V.; CAPON, ROBERT J.. New PKS-NRPS tetramic acids and pyridinone from an Australian marine-derived fungus, Chaunopycnis sp.. ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY, v. 13, n. 28, p. 7795-7802, . (13/13166-4)
KALANSURIYA, PABASARA; QUEZADA, MICHELLE; ESPOSITO, BRENO P.; CAPON, ROBERT J.. Talarazines A-E: Noncytotoxic Iron(III) Chelators from an Australian Mud Dauber Wasp-Associated Fungus, Talaromyces sp (CMB-W045). Journal of Natural Products, v. 80, n. 3, p. 7-pg., . (13/13166-4)