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Antimycobacterial triterpenes from Melia volkensii
C L Cantrell1, M S Rajab, S G Franzblau
1Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-1804, and GWL Hansen's Disease Center, P.O. Box 25072, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70894, USA.
Abstract:
In a bioassay-guided search for antimycobacterial compounds from higher plants, we have chemically investigated methanolic extracts of seeds of Melia volkensii. Chromatographic fractions provided two new euphane (20R)-type triterpenoids. The structures of the new compounds, 12beta-hydroxykulactone (1) and 6beta-hydroxykulactone (2), were elucidated by 1D and 2D NMR (13C, 1H, 1H-1H COSY, HMQC, HMBC, and NOESY spectra) and FABMS studies and shown to be hydroxyl derivatives of kulactone (3). Also isolated was the known kulonate (4). In a radiorespirometric bioassay against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, compounds 1, 2, and 4 exhibited minimum inhibitory concentrations of 16, 4, and 16 microg/mL, respectively.