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Published on: August 6, 2019
New 1,4-Dienonesteroids from the Octocoral Dendronephthya sp
Thanh-Hao Huynh1,2, Pei-Chin Chen3, San-Nan Yang4
1Graduate Institute of Marine Biology, National Dong Hwa University, Pingtung 944, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Two new steroids, dendronesterones D (1) and E (2), featuring with 1,4-dienone moiety, along with three known steroids, methyl 3-oxochola-4,22-diene-24-oate (3), 5α,8α-epidioxy-24(S)- methylcholesta-6,22-dien-3β-ol (4), and 5α,8α-epidioxy-24(S)-methylcholesta-6,9(11),22-trien-3β-ol (5), were isolated from an octocoral Dendronephthya sp. The structures of steroids 1 and 2 were elucidated by using spectroscopic methods and steroid 1 was found to exhibit significant in vitro anti-inflammatory activity in lipopolysaccharides (LPS)-induced RAW264.7 macrophage cells by inhibiting the expression of the iNOS protein.
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