Automated High-Throughput System to Fractionate Plant Natural Products for Drug Discovery

作者:Tu Ying; Jeffries Cynthia; Ruan Hong; Nelson Cynthia; Smithson David; Shelat Anang A; Brown Kristin M; Li Xing Cong; Hester John P; Smillie Troy; Khan Ikhlas A; Walker Larry; Guy Kip*; Yan Bing
来源:Journal of Natural Products, 2010, 73(4): 751-754.
DOI:10.1021/np9007359

摘要

The development of an automated, high-throughput fractionation procedure to prepare and analyze natural product libraries for drug discovery screening is described. Natural products obtained from plant materials worldwide were extracted and first prefractionated on polyamide solid-phase extraction cartridges to remove polyphenols, followed by high-throughput automated fractionation, drying, weighing, and reformatting for screening and storage. The analysis of fractions with UPLC coupled with MS, PDA, and ELSD detectors provides information that facilitates characterization of compounds in active fractions. Screening of a portion of fractions yielded multiple assay-specific hits in several high-throughput cellular screening assays. This procedure modernizes the traditional natural product fractionation paradigm by seamlessly integrating automation, informatics, and multimodal analytical interrogation capabilities.