An epigenetic molluscicide

Type Article
Acceptance Date 2023-03-22 IN PRESS
Language English
Author(s) Luviano Nelia1, Halby Ludovic2, Jallet Corinne2, Arimondo Paola B.2, Cosseau Celine1, Grunau ChristophORCID1
Affiliation(s) 1 : IHPE, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Montpellier, Perpignan, France
2 : Epigenetic Chemical Biology, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris-Cité, UMR n°3523, CNRS, 28 Rue du Dr Roux, Paris 75015, France
Source bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) In Press
DOI 10.1101/2023.03.21.533666
Note This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review
Keyword(s) schistosomiases, Biomphalaria glabrata, molluscicide, epigenetics, DNA methylation inhibitor
Abstract

Biomphalaria glabratais a fresh-water mollusk that serves as obligatory intermediate host toSchistosoma mansoni, agent of the neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis that affects roughly 250 Mio people. One of the ways to control the pathogenic agent is to interrupt the life cycle by eliminating the intermediate snail host though foal treatment of water bodies with molluscicides. Currently recommended molluscicides were developed in the 1950ths and lack sufficient specificity, e.g., they are toxic to fish. To provide new lead compounds for the development of a new type of molluscicides we used a rational approach based on the hypotheses that interfering with an important epigenetic mark, DNA methylation, would impede development of the snail host. We present here the compound 29, analogues-based compound that mimic substrates of DNA methyltransferases. We show that compound 29 has (i) low cytotoxicity for human cells, (ii) it inhibits DNA methylation, and (iii) it decreases fecundity inB.glabrata. It is therefore conceivable to produce compounds that act as specific epigenetic molluscicides.

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