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From Biodiversity to Chemodiversity: Novel Plant Produced Compounds with Agrochemical and Cosmetic Interest
Third-party funded project
Project title From Biodiversity to Chemodiversity: Novel Plant Produced Compounds with Agrochemical and Cosmetic Interest
Principal Investigator(s) Hamburger, Matthias
Organisation / Research unit Departement Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften / Pharmazeutische Biologie (Hamburger)
Project start 01.04.2010
Probable end 31.03.2014
Status Completed
Abstract

The consortium will discover and carry to the stage of development candidates, plant derived small molecules with potential as new cosmetic and agrochemical agents. These compounds will derive from plants originating from major biodiversity hotspots in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. The starting point of the project will be a diversity-oriented natural product library of 500 compounds from the existing compound repositories of three project partners. Screening of this compound library in assay panels for agrochemical (antifungal, herbicidal, insecticidal) and cosmetic properties (UV-protection, anti-aging, anti-hyperpigmentation) will rapidly identify promising scaffolds. This knowledge will serve as entry points for a chemotaxonomy and chemodiversity oriented collection of plants which are thought to contain structural variants and decorations of these scaffolds. A liquid library of 3600 extracts will be generated and screened. Stringent prioritization and profiling procedures will generate 300 compounds as focused sub-libraries around the privileged scaffolds. A state-of-the-art technology platform for miniaturized natural product discovery will be used for the purpose. Evaluation of these sub-libraries will lead to 30 compounds which will undergo advanced testing to qualify 5 compounds as development candidates for novel agrochemical and/or cosmetic agents with new or improved properties over existing active ingredients. An additional outcome of the project will be an extract library with a unprecedented level of associated spectroscopic information and metadata, to be used for future purposes. The high-caliber consortium brings together international leaders in small molecule natural products, bioprospection, leading industries in agrochemistry, cosmetics, and spectroscopic data management and analysis.

Financed by Commission of the European Union

Cooperations ()

  ID Kreditinhaber Kooperationspartner Institution Laufzeit - von Laufzeit - bis
470279  Hamburger, Matthias  Skaltsounis Leandros, Prof.  University of Athens, Faculty of Pharmacy  16.02.2009  31.12.2013 
470293  Hamburger, Matthias  Spraul Manfred, Dr.  Bruker Biospin  01.04.2010  31.03.2014 
470297  Hamburger, Matthias  Gupta Mahabir, Prof.  University of Panama, CIFLORPAN  01.04.2010  31.03.2017 
470299  Hamburger, Matthias  Stien Didier, Dr.  CNRS, ECOFOG, Kourou, French Guyana  01.04.2010  31.03.2014 
470302  Hamburger, Matthias  Breuninger Delphine, Dr.  BASF  01.04.2010  31.03.2014 
470304  Hamburger, Matthias  Kletsas Dimitris Prof.  Demokritos Institute, Athens  01.04.2010  31.03.2014 
470305  Hamburger, Matthias  Vasilatou Katerina, Dr.  Korres, Athens  01.04.2010  31.03.2014 
169728  Hamburger, Matthias  Nivan Moodley, Dr.  Center for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR), Pretoria  13.08.2009  13.08.2012 
   

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