Sesquiterpenoids from Carpesium divaricatum and their cytotoxic activity

Wei Dong Xie, Xiu Ru Wang, Li Sha Ma, Xia Li, Kyung Ho Row

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Abstract

In the course of searching for cytotoxic terpenoids from medicinal plants in China, two new eudesmane sesquiterpenoids, 5α-hydroxy-13-methoxy- 7αH,11αH-eudesm-4(15)-en-12,8β-lactone (1) and 1β-hydroxy-7αH,11αH-eudesm-4(15)-en-12,8β-lactone (2), along with fourteen known sesquiterpenoids were isolated from the whole plant of Carpesium divaricatum. The structures of new compounds were determined using spectroscopic methods, including IR, HRESIMS, and 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. The cytotoxicity of selected sesquiterpene lactones against human oral epidermoid carcinoma (KB), human breast cancer (MCF-7) and human hepatoma (HepG-2) cells was also evaluated by MTT method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1351-1355
Number of pages5
JournalFitoterapia
Volume83
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2012

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, PR China (No. 2009ZRB02091 ) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81072660 ).

Keywords

  • Carpesium divaricatum
  • Cytotoxicity
  • Eudesmane
  • Lactone
  • Sesquiterpenoid

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