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Pei-Pei An1, Hui Huang2, Su-Jie Ru3
1State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
Abstract:
Two rare 8-hydroxysteroid glycosides (6-7), and their downstream metabolites (1-5) with an unprecedented 6/6/5/5/5-pentacyclic scaffold, together with seven known analogues (8-14) were isolated from the twigs and leaves of Strophanthus divaricatus. Their structures were fully assigned by analysis of the spectroscopic and ECD data, NMR calculations, X-ray crystallographic study, and chemical methods. In addition, the inhibitory effects of 1-14 on liver and lung cancer cell lines were evaluated, and preliminary structure-activity relationship was discussed. Data-independent acquisition (DIA)-based quantitative proteomic analysis and biological verification of H1299 cells suggested that this family of compounds may play an anticancer role by suppressing both DNA damage response (DDR) and mTOR/S6K signaling pathways.
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