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Identification of benzopyrone as a common structural feature in compounds with anti-inflammatory activity in a zebrafish phenotypic screen

Authors
Robertson, A.L., Ogryzko, N.V., Henry, K.M., Loynes, C.A., Foulkes, M.J., Meloni, M.M., Wang, X., Ford, C., Jackson, M., Ingham, P.W., Wilson, H.L., Farrow, S.N., Solari, R., Flower, R.J., Jones, S., Whyte, M.K., Renshaw, S.A.
ID
ZDB-PUB-160417-11
Date
2016
Source
Disease models & mechanisms   9(6): 621-32 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Henry, Katherine, Ingham, Philip, Loynes, Catherine, Ogryzko, Nikolay, Renshaw, Steve A., Robertson, Anne, Wang, Xingang
Keywords
Benzopyrone, Chromone, Inflammation, Neutrophil apoptosis, Zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents/chemistry*
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents/pharmacology*
  • Antioxidants/pharmacology
  • Apoptosis/drug effects
  • Coumarins/chemistry*
  • Coumarins/pharmacology*
  • Cromolyn Sodium/chemistry
  • Cromolyn Sodium/pharmacology
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical*
  • Furocoumarins/chemistry
  • Furocoumarins/pharmacology
  • Inflammation/pathology
  • Neutrophil Infiltration/drug effects
  • Neutrophils/cytology
  • Neutrophils/drug effects
  • Phenotype
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
PubMed
27079522 Full text @ Dis. Model. Mech.
Abstract
Neutrophils are essential for host defence and are recruited to sites of inflammation in response to tissue injury or infection. For inflammation to resolve, these cells must be cleared efficiently and in a controlled manner, either by apoptosis or reverse migration. If the inflammatory response is not well regulated, persistent neutrophils may cause damage to host tissues and contribute to the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases, which respond poorly to current treatments. It is therefore important to develop drug discovery strategies that can identify new therapeutics specifically targeting neutrophils, either by promoting their clearance or by preventing their recruitment. Our recentin vivochemical genetic screen for accelerators of inflammation resolution identified a subset of compounds sharing a common chemical signature, the bicyclic benzopyrone rings. Here, we further investigate the mechanisms of action of the most active of this chemical series, isopimpinellin, in our zebrafish model of neutrophilic inflammation. We found that this compound targets both the recruitment and resolution phases of the inflammatory response. Neutrophil migration towards a site of injury is reduced by isopimpinellin and this occurs as a result of PI3K inhibition. We also show that isopimpinellin induces neutrophil apoptosis to drive inflammation resolutionin vivousing a new zebrafish reporter line detectingin vivoneutrophil caspase-3 activity and allowing quantification of flux through the apoptotic pathway in real-time. Finally, our studies reveal that clinically available 'cromones' are structurally related to isopimpinellin and have previously undescribed pro-resolution activityin vivo These findings may have implications for the therapeutic use of benzopyrones in inflammatory disease.
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