The Experts below are selected from a list of 279 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform

Erich Hecker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Dietary cancer risk from conditional cancerogens (tumor promoters) in produce of livestock fed on species of spurge (Euphorbiaceae). V. Skin irriitant and tumor-promoting diterpene ester toxins of the Tigliane and ingenane type in the herbs Euphorbia
    Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2001
    Co-Authors: Salah M. A. D. Zayed, Madiha Farghaly, Soliman M. Soliman, Hubert Gotta, Bernd L. Sorg, Erich Hecker
    Abstract:

    Irritant diterpene ester toxins were isolated from Euphorbia nubica and E. helioscopia, which are contaminants of the green fodder of livestock in Egypt. Fractionations of methanol extracts of aerial parts of both plants were monitored by the irritation unit on the mouse ear. Plant extracts were subjected to multiplicative distribution methods, yielding irritant hydrophilic fractions that were further purified by column chromatography. Final purification of the materials was achieved by TLC (silica gel) followed by HPLC, or by TLC alone. In this way, from E. nubica, five Euphorbia factors (Nu1-Nu5) were isolated and characterized as short-chain polyfunctional diterpene esters of Tigliane-type parent alcohols. The two weak irritants Nul and Nu3 were triesters of 4-deoxy(4alpha)phorbol. Nu2 was shown to be a triester of the stereoisomeric Tigliane-type parent alcohol 4-deoxyphorbol. Weak irritant Nu4 probably is a positional isomer of Nu2. Nu5 was characterized as a short-chain triester of 4,20-dideoxy-5xi-hydroxyphorbol. From E. helioscopia, six short- to medium-chain polyfunctional diterpene esters of the ingenane type, generally containing unsaturated acids were obtained, i.e., four irritant esters of ingenol (Euphorbia factors H1, H2, H5, and H6) and two esters of 20-deoxyingenol (non-irritant Euphorbia substance HS4, and irritant Euphorbia factor H8). All irritant Euphorbia factors of the Tigliane and ingenane diterpene ester type described in this investigation are considered to be more or less active tumor promoters, i.e., conditional (non-genotoxic) cancerogens. The Euphorbia factors assayed exhibited moderate (H1) to low (H8) relative tumor-promoting potency in comparison to the ingenane prototype DTE tumor promoter 3-TI.

  • Dietary cancer risk from conditional cancerogens (tumor promoters) in produce of livestock fed on species of spurge (Euphorbiaceae)
    Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 2001
    Co-Authors: Salah M. A. D. Zayed, Madiha Farghaly, Soliman M. Soliman, Hubert Gotta, Bernd Sorg, Erich Hecker
    Abstract:

    Irritant diterpene ester toxins were isolated from Euphorbia nubica and E. helioscopia , which are contaminants of the green fodder of livestock in Egypt. Fractionations of methanol extracts of aerial parts of both plants were monitored by the irritation unit on the mouse ear. Plant extracts were subjected to multiplicative distribution methods, yielding irritant hydrophilic fractions that were further purified by column chromatography. Final purification of the materials was achieved by TLC (silica gel) followed by HPLC, or by TLC alone. In this way, from E. nubica , five Euphorbia factors (Nu1–Nu5) were isolated and characterized as short-chain polyfunctional diterpene esters of Tigliane-type parent alcohols. The two weak irritants Nu1 and Nu3 were triesters of 4-deoxy(4α)phorbol. Nu2 was shown to be a triester of the stereoisomeric Tigliane-type parent alcohol 4-deoxyphorbol. Weak irritant Nu4 probably is a positional isomer of Nu2. Nu5 was characterized as a short-chain triester of 4,20-dideoxy-5ξ-hydroxyphorbol. From E. helioscopia , six short- to medium-chain polyfunctional diterpene esters of the ingenane type, generally containing unsaturated acids were obtained, i.e., four irritant esters of ingenol ( Euphorbia factors H1, H2, H5, and H6) and two esters of 20-deoxyingenol (non-irritant Euphorbia substance HS4, and irritant Euphorbia factor H8). All irritant Euphorbia factors of the Tigliane and ingenane diterpene ester type described in this investigation are considered to be more or less active tumor promoters, i.e., conditional (non-genotoxic) cancerogens. The Euphorbia factors assayed exhibited moderate (H1) to low (H8) relative tumor-promoting potency in comparison to the ingenane prototype DTE tumor promoter 3-TI.

  • Structure/Activity Relationships of Polyfunctional Diterpenes of the Tigliane Type
    European journal of biochemistry, 1996
    Co-Authors: Goetz Krauter, Claus-w. Von Der Lieth, Rainer Schmidt, Erich Hecker
    Abstract:

    For protein kinase C (PKC), a family of isoenzymes with serine/threonine-kinase activity identified as the major cellular receptor for certain skin irritants and tumor promoters, a new pharmacophore model is presented. By structure/activity relationship studies of naturally occurring and synthetic diterpene esters of the Tigliane type (PKC activators) it is demonstrated that in addition to the oxygen at C20 it is the O-acyl function in position C13 which is critically essential for skin-irritant and tumor-promoting bioactivities rather than other oxygen atoms. This result is confirmed and extended by computer-assisted molecular modeling of Tigliane-type and ingenane-type tumor promoters. It is contrasted to certain features attributed to the pharmacophore based upon the recently determined crystallographic structure of the effector-binding domain Cys2 of PKCδ complexed with the pseudo-agonist phorbol 13-acetate.

Zhi Liu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Goetz Krauter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Structure/Activity Relationships of Polyfunctional Diterpenes of the Tigliane Type
    European journal of biochemistry, 1996
    Co-Authors: Goetz Krauter, Claus-w. Von Der Lieth, Rainer Schmidt, Erich Hecker
    Abstract:

    For protein kinase C (PKC), a family of isoenzymes with serine/threonine-kinase activity identified as the major cellular receptor for certain skin irritants and tumor promoters, a new pharmacophore model is presented. By structure/activity relationship studies of naturally occurring and synthetic diterpene esters of the Tigliane type (PKC activators) it is demonstrated that in addition to the oxygen at C20 it is the O-acyl function in position C13 which is critically essential for skin-irritant and tumor-promoting bioactivities rather than other oxygen atoms. This result is confirmed and extended by computer-assisted molecular modeling of Tigliane-type and ingenane-type tumor promoters. It is contrasted to certain features attributed to the pharmacophore based upon the recently determined crystallographic structure of the effector-binding domain Cys2 of PKCδ complexed with the pseudo-agonist phorbol 13-acetate.

  • structure activity relationships of polyfunctional diterpenes of the Tigliane type
    FEBS Journal, 1996
    Co-Authors: Goetz Krauter, Claus-w. Von Der Lieth, Rainer Schmidt, E. Hecker
    Abstract:

    For protein kinase C (PKC), a family of isoenzymes with serine/threonine-kinase activity identified as the major cellular receptor for certain skin irritants and tumor promoters, a new pharmacophore model is presented. By structure/activity relationship studies of naturally occurring and synthetic diterpene esters of the Tigliane type (PKC activators) it is demonstrated that in addition to the oxygen at C20 it is the O-acyl function in position C13 which is critically essential for skin-irritant and tumor-promoting bioactivities rather than other oxygen atoms. This result is confirmed and extended by computer-assisted molecular modeling of Tigliane-type and ingenane-type tumor promoters. It is contrasted to certain features attributed to the pharmacophore based upon the recently determined crystallographic structure of the effector-binding domain Cys2 of PKCδ complexed with the pseudo-agonist phorbol 13-acetate.

Guanghu Tong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

David A Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.