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[Chemical and cytotoxic constituents of Zanthoxylum nitidum]
Li-Na Zhao1, Jia Wang1, Zhe Wang1
1School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China.
Abstract:
Ten compounds were isolated from the methanol extract of Zanthoxylum nitidum through silica gel, Sephadex LH-20, RP-18 and HPLC chromatography techniques. Their structures were elucidated by the MS and NMR spectra as zanthonitidine B(1), cyclo-(Leu-Leu-Leu-Leu-Ile)(2),6S-10-O-demethylbocconoline(3), liriodenine(4), isoplatydesmine(5), 5, 5'-dimethoxylariciresinol(6), syringaresinol (7), episyringaresinol (8), marmesin (9) and syringaldehyde (10). Among them,1 is a new alkaloid,2 is a cyclopentapeptide isolated from plant kingdom for the first time, and 3 is from the genus Zanthoxylum for the first time. Compounds 3 and 4 exhibited cytoxoxicity against three human cancer cell lines HT29, A549 and MDA-MB-231 with IC₅₈ values of 27.37, 24.10, 33.58 μmol·L⁻¹ and 9.12,6.05, 11.35 μmol·L⁻¹, respectively.
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