yy Deguelin exerts potent nematocidal activity via the mitochondrial respiratory chain

Sarah Preston; Pasi K Korhonen; Laurent Mouchiroud; Matteo Cornaglia; Sean L McGee; Neil D Young; Rohan A Davis; Simon Crawford; Cameron Nowell; Brendan RE Ansell; Gillian M Fisher; Katherine T Andrews; Bill CH Chang; Martin AM Gijs; Paul W Sternberg; Johan Auwerx; Jonathan Baell; Andreas Hofmann; Abdul Jabbar; Robin B Gasser

Journal article

yy Deguelin exerts potent nematocidal activity via the mitochondrial respiratory chain

Sarah Preston, Pasi K Korhonen, Laurent Mouchiroud, Matteo Cornaglia, Sean L McGee, Neil D Young, Rohan A Davis, Simon Crawford, Cameron Nowell, Brendan RE Ansell, Gillian M Fisher, Katherine T Andrews, Bill CH Chang, Martin AM Gijs, Paul W Sternberg, Johan Auwerx, Jonathan Baell, Andreas Hofmann, Abdul Jabbar, Robin B Gasser

The FASEB Journal | FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1096/fj.201700288R

University of Melbourne Researchers

Bill Chang Author Veterinary Biosciences

Abdul Jabbar Author Veterinary Biosciences

Robin Gasser Author Veterinary Biosciences

Pasi Korhonen Author Veterinary Biosciences

Neil Young Author Veterinary Biosciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, as well as by the Medicines for Malaria Venture, Yourgene Bioscience, the University of Melbourne (to R.B.G. S.P., A.J., J.B., B.C.H.C., and A.H.), the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and the Gebert Ruf Stiftung (GRS-025/16) and the AgingX program of the Swiss Initiative for Systems Biology (to J.A. and L.M.). Some work was supported by the EU Ideas Program (ERC-2012-AdG-320404; to M.A.M.G and M.C.). G.M.F. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship and a new researcher grant from Griffith University. P.K.K. was supported by an early career research fellowship, and N.D.Y. by a career development fellowship (CDF1) from NHMRC. Funding bodies played no role in the design of the study or collection, analysis, or interpretation of data, or in the writing of the manuscript. The authors thank Compounds Australia (http://www.griffith.edu.au/science-aviation/compounds-australia) for access to the Davis open-access natural product library, which forms part of the Open Access Compound Collection. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.