TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abdelhameed, Reda F. A.
A1  - Habib, Eman S.
A1  - Goda, Marwa S.
A1  - Fahim, John Refaat
A1  - Hassanean, Hashem A.
A1  - Eltamany, Enas E.
A1  - Ibrahim, Amany K.
A1  - AboulMagd, Asmaa M.
A1  - Fayez, Shaimaa
A1  - Abd El-kader, Adel M.
A1  - Al-Warhi, Tarfah
A1  - Bringmann, Gerhard
A1  - Ahmed, Safwat A.
A1  - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan
T1  - Thalassosterol, a New Cytotoxic Aromatase Inhibitor Ergosterol Derivative from the Red Sea Seagrass Thalassodendron ciliatum
JF  - Marine Drugs
N2  - Thalassodendron ciliatum (Forssk.) Den Hartog is a seagrass belonging to the plant family Cymodoceaceae with ubiquitous phytoconstituents and important pharmacological potential, including antioxidant, antiviral, and cytotoxic activities. In this work, a new ergosterol derivative named thalassosterol (1) was isolated from the methanolic extract of T. ciliatum growing in the Red Sea, along with two known first-reported sterols, namely ergosterol (2) and stigmasterol (3), using different chromatographic techniques. The structure of the new compound was established based on 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HR-MS) and by comparison with the literature data. The new ergosterol derivative showed significant in vitro antiproliferative potential against the human cervical cancer cell line (HeLa) and human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell lines, with IC\(_{50}\) values of 8.12 and 14.24 µM, respectively. In addition, docking studies on the new sterol 1 explained the possible binding interactions with an aromatase enzyme; this inhibition is beneficial in both cervical and breast cancer therapy. A metabolic analysis of the crude extract of T. ciliatum using liquid chromatography combined with high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-HR-MS) revealed the presence of an array of phenolic compounds, sterols and ceramides, as well as di- and triglycerides.
KW  - cytotoxic activity
KW  - ergosterol derivative
KW  - metabolic analysis
KW  - docking studies
KW  - seagrass
KW  - Thalassodendron ciliatum
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-236085
VL  - 18
IS  - 7
ER  -