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Xiao-Yan Zhang1, Zhan-Liang Liu2, Bing-Da Sun3
1Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development , Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College , Beijing 100193 , People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Five new resorcylic acid lactones (RALs) hispidulactones A-E (1, 4, 5, 8, and 9), a new natural product (2), and four known ones (3, 6, 7, and 10) with different ring systems were isolated from the desert plant Chaetosphaeronema hispidulum. [corrected]. The new compounds were characterized by NMR data, CD spectra, and X-ray experiment. The new natural product (2) displayed strongly biological effects on the seedlings growth of Arabidopsis thaliana, Digitaria sanguinalis, and Echinochloa crusgalli with a dose-dependent relationship. Compounds 1, 2, and 6 were also tested cytotoxic activities against three cancer cell lines HCT116, Hela, and MCF7 and only did the new natural product (2) display biological activities with IC50 values at 54.86 ± 1.52, 4. 90 ± 0.02, and 20.04 ± 4.00 μM, respectively, whereas the IC50 values of the positive control cis-platinum were 11.36 ± 0.42, 3.54 ± 0.12, and 14.32 ± 1.01 μM, respectively.
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