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Effect of different types of sesquiterpene lactones on the maturation of Rhinella arenarum oocytes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2014

G. Sánchez-Toranzo ,
J. Zapata-Martínez ,
C. Catalán  and
M.I. Bühler
G. Sánchez-Toranzo*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología del Desarrollo, Chacabuco 461, 4000 – San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
J. Zapata-Martínez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología del Desarrollo, Chacabuco 461, 4000 – San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
C. Catalán
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología del Desarrollo, Chacabuco 461, 4000 – San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
M.I. Bühler
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología del Desarrollo, Chacabuco 461, 4000 – San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
*
All correspondence to: Graciela Sánchez-Toranzo. Departamento de Biología del Desarrollo, Chacabuco 461, 4000 – San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Fax: +54 381 4248025. e-mail: gsancheztoranzo@hotmail.com
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Summary

The sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) are a large class of plant secondary metabolites that are generally found in the Asteraceae family and that have high diversity with respect to chemical structure as well as biological activity. STLs have been classified into different groups, such as guaianolides, germacranolides, and melampolides etc., based on their carboxylic skeleton. In amphibians, fully grown ovarian oocytes are arrested at the beginning of meiosis I. Under the stimulus of progesterone, this meiotic arrest is released and meiosis progresses to metaphase II, a process known as oocyte maturation. The purpose of this work was to determine whether sesquiterpene lactones from the germacranolide and melampolide groups act as inhibitor agents on the meiosis of amphibian oocytes in vitro. Results for germacranolides indicated that the addition of deoxyelephantopins caused a high degree of inhibition and that minimolide showed a moderate inhibitory effect, whereas glaucolide A was inactive. Furthermore, the addition of melampolides (uvedalin, enhydrin, polymatin A and polymatin B) showed inhibitory effects. For enhydrin and uvedalin, inhibitory effects were observed at the higher concentrations assayed. The results of this study suggest that the inhibitory activity of the tested sesquiterpene lactones on the meiosis of Rhinella arenarum oocytes is not dependent on the group to which they belong, i.e. not on the carboxylic skeleton, but probably due to the arrangement and type of function groups present in the molecules. All assayed lactones in the germacranolide group showed low toxicity. In contrast, important differences in toxicity were observed for lactones from the melampolide group: enhydrin and uvedalin showed low toxicity, but polymatin A and B were highly toxic.

Keywords

AmphibianMeiosisOocyte maturationSesquiterpene lactones
Type
Research Article
Information
Zygote , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 2015 , pp. 406 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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