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a Fabaceae plant used in traditional Tanzanian medicine, Rhynchosia viscosa DC. Optimization of the workflow with minimal amounts of extract was successfully achieved providing a generic approach that is adaptable for any other sample, even if extracts are only available in milligram amounts. 2 Microscale Natural Product Discovery in Zebrafish Results and Discussion Anti-inflammatory and Anti-angiogenic Activity of Rhynchosia viscosa in Zebrafish Using a zebrafish-based inflammation assay, we screened crude methanolic extracts from over 80 East African medicinal plants. The extract of Rhynchosia viscosa DC. inhibited leukocyte migration in tail-transected four days postfertilization larvae in a concentration-dependent manner. The anti-inflammatory effect of the crude extract of R. viscosa was evident at 50 mg/mL a concentration at which a relative leukocyte migration value of 0.39 was achieved, in comparison with an RLM of 0.24 achieved by 100 mM indomethacin as a positive control. Interestingly, the ethnomedicinal use of R. viscosa in Tanzania includes the topical treatment of inflammatory skin disorders and insect bites, prompting us to perform follow-up studies for the identification of anti-inflammatory constituents of this plant. In parallel, we also screened the extracts of these East African medicinal plants for their capacity to inhibit angiogenesis, based on their ability to restrict vascular outgrowth in fli-1:EGFP transgenic zebrafish embryos, which exhibit vasculaturespecific expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein during embryonic and larval development. In addition to the identification of Oxygonum sinuatum Dammer and Plectranthus barbatus Andrews as antiangiogenic extracts, we found that the methanolic extract of the aerial parts of R. viscosa inhibited intersegmental vessel outgrowth in fli-1:EGFP embryos in a concentration-dependent manner. In order to rapidly localize the compounds responsible for the bioactivity, high-resolution HPLC-based bioassay-guided fractionation of the extract was performed using 20830712 the zebrafish vascular outgrowth assay given its higher throughput and lower assay volume compared to the lipopolysaccharide -enhanced leukocyte migration assay. Generic Chromatographic Procedure for Optimal Onestep Microfractionation of NP Extracts for the Rapid Localization of Bioactive Constituents For the rapid isolation and identification of the bioactive constituents of R. viscosa we developed a generic chromatographic procedure which combines ultra high pressure liquid chromatography photo diode array time of flight 17496168 mass spectrometry for extract profiling, gradient transfer for one-step separation on semi-preparative HPLC and microfractionation for a rapid collection of all LC peaks for further bioactivity assessment. UHPLC-PDA-TOFMS Profiling and Dereplication Initially, a metabolite profiling at the analytical scale was performed with microgram amounts of crude extract on UHPLCPDA-TOFMS to evaluate the extract complexity. This method combines high-resolution separation on sub-2 mm particle columns with high-resolution MS detection, which provides 6-Methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone molecular formula information for all analytes on-line. For this generic profiling, the separation was achieved on an enriched extract with optimal conditions for maximal peak capacity . The metabolite profiling revealed a large number of detected peaks to have PDA spectra corresponding to polyphenols with molecular weights ranging from 250 to 450 Da. Most of

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