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Nitrogen-containing bibenzyls from Pleione bulbocodioides: absolute configurations and biological activities

  • Fitoterapia. 2015 Apr:102:120-6. doi: 10.1016/j.fitote.2015.01.015.
Yuan Li 1 Fan Zhang 1 Ze-Hong Wu 1 Ke-Wu Zeng 1 Chen Zhang 1 Hong-Wei Jin 1 Ming-Bo Zhao 1 Yong Jiang 1 Jun Li 2 Peng-Fei Tu 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China. Electronic address: lijun@bjmu.edu.cn.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China. Electronic address: pengfeitu@vip.163.com.
Abstract

Four new pyrrolidone substituted bibenzyls, dusuanlansins A-D (1-4) were isolated from the pseudo bulbs of Pleione bulbocodioides, along with 19 known compounds (5-23). Compounds 1-4 are two pairs of epimers of pyrrolidone substituted bibenzyls, which were separated successfully by a Chiralcel OD-RH C18 column. Their absolute configurations were elucidated by calculated ECD. Biological investigations showed that compounds 5 and 7 exhibited potent anti-inflammatory activities on LPS-stimulated NO production in BV-2 microglial cells, with IC50 values of 2.46 and 3.14μM, respectively.

Keywords

Anti-inflammatory activity; Bibenzyl; ECD; Epimer; Pleione bulbocodioides.

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