Cytotoxic cardenolides from the latex of Calotropis procera

Autor: Gamal Badr, Lixin Zhang, Huanqin Dai, Ahmed A. M. Shoreit, Xueting Liu, Lamya H. Alwahibi, Ronald J. Quinn, Miaomiao Liu, Nadia H. Mohamed, Wael M. Abdel-Mageed, Mady A. Ismail
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 25:4615-4620
ISSN: 0960-894X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.08.044
Popis: Three new cardenolides (3, 9 and 10), along with eight known ones, were isolated from the latex of Calotropis procera. The structural determination was accomplished by the 1D- and 2D-NMR spectra as well as HRESIMS analysis. The growth inhibitory activity of the latex and its sub-fractions as well as isolated compounds was evaluated against human A549 and Hela cell lines. The results exhibited that latex had strong growth inhibitory activity with IC50s of (3.37 μM, A-549) and (6.45 μM, Hela). Among the four extracts (hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and aqueous), chloroform extract displayed the highest potential cytotoxic activity, with IC50s of (0.985 μM, A-549) and (1.471 μM, Hela). All the isolated compounds displayed various degrees of cytotoxic activity and the highest activity was observed by calactin (1) with IC50s values of (0.036 μM, A-549) and (0.083 μM, Hela). None of these isolated compounds exhibited good antimicrobial activity evaluated by determination of their MICs using the broth microdilution method against various infectious pathogens. The structure-activity relationships for cytotoxic activity were also discussed.
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