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Oleanane-type triterpenoids from Sabia limoniacea and their anti-inflammatory activities

  • Bioorg Chem. 2024 Oct:151:107683. doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.107683.
Yan Huang 1 Ping Hou 2 Li-Wei Pan 2 Xiao-Qin Liang 2 Chen-Yang Ren 2 Liu-Ting Peng 2 Chun-Qiu Gan 2 Rui-Yun Yang 2 Wei-Feng Xu 2 Jun Li 3 Yan-Jun Zhang 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources (Ministry of Education of China), Collaborative Innovation Center for Guangxi Ethnic Medicine, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Quality Standards, Guangxi Institute of Chinese Medicine & Pharmaceutical Science, Nanning 530022, China.
  • 2 State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources (Ministry of Education of China), Collaborative Innovation Center for Guangxi Ethnic Medicine, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources (Ministry of Education of China), Collaborative Innovation Center for Guangxi Ethnic Medicine, School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China. Electronic address: lijun9593@gxnu.edu.cn.
  • 4 Guangxi Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Materials and Safety Technology, College of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou 535000, China. Electronic address: zhangyj201608@163.com.
Abstract

Eighteen new oleanane-type triterpenoids were isolated from the stems of Sabia limoniacea, including sabialimon A (1), a triterpenoid with an unprecedented 6/6/6/7/7 pentacyclic skeleton and seventeen undescribed triterpenoids, sabialimons B-R (2 - 18), along with six previously described analogs (19 - 24). Their structures were fully elucidated via extensive spectroscopic analysis including 1D and 2D NMR, high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (HRESIMS), experimental electronic circular dichroism measurements and X-ray crystallographic studies. Compound 1 is the first triterpenoid that possesses a rare ring system (6/6/6/7/7) with an oxygen-bearing bridge between C-17 and C-18 and a hemiketal form at C-17, which is generated a larger ring by the degradation of C-28 and D/E-ring expansion. Biological evaluation revealed that sabialimon I (9), sabialimon K (11), sabialimon P (16) and 11,13(18)-oleanadien-28-hydroxymethyl 3-one (20) exhibited significantly inhibitory activities against nitric oxide (NO) release with IC50 values of 29.65, 23.41, 18.12 and 26.64 μM, respectively, as compared with the positive control (dexamethasone, IC50 value: 40.35 μM). Furthermore, sabialimon P markedly decreased the secretion of TNF-α, iNOS, IL-6 and NF-κB and inhibited the expression of COX-2 and NF-κB/p65 in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells in a dose-dependent manner.

Keywords

Anti-inflammatory activity; Oleanane-type triterpenoids; Sabia limoniacea; Sabialimon A.

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