Bioactive Pentacyclic Triterpenoids from the Leaves of Cleistocalyx operculatus

Subjects: Biology >> Biochemistry submitted time 2017-05-19

Wang, Chen Wu, Ping Tian, Shuai Xue, Jinghua Xu, Liangxiong Li, Hanxiang Wei, Xiaoyi

Abstract：Thirteen new pentacyclic triterpenoids, cleistocalyxic acids AK (1, 2, 4, 5, and 713) and cleistocalyxolides A (3) and B (6), and fifteen known analogues (1428), based on taraxastane, oleanane, ursane, multiflorane, and lupane skeletons, were isolated from the leaves of Cleistocalyx operculatus. The structures of 113 were elucidated by analysis of their spectroscopic data and ECD/TDDFT computations. Cleistocalyxolide A (3), presumed to be derived from the known taraxastane-type compound 14, has a rare rearranged triterpenoid backbone. Cleistocalyxic acid B (2) displayed cytotoxicity against HepG2, NCI-N87, and MCF-7 cancer cell lines with IC50 values ranging from 3.2 to 6.5 M and cleistocalyxic acid D (5) was active against HepG2 and NCI-N87 cells with the values around 5.0 M. The non-cytotoxic cleistocalyxic acid E (7) inhibited production of IL-6 by 68.1% and TNF- by 53.7% in LPS-induced RAW 264.7 macrophages at the concentration of 2 M.

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