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Cytotoxic Triterpenoids from Roots of Actinidia chinensis

  • Chem Biodivers. 2018 Feb;15(2). doi: 10.1002/cbdv.201700454.
Liu-Bin Wei 1 Si-Yuan Ma 2 Hong-Xing Liu 2 3 Chu-Sheng Huang 2 3 Na Liao 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 College of Medicine, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, 545006, P. R. China.
  • 2 College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Guangxi Teachers Education University, Nanning, 530001, P. R. China.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, 541000, P. R. China.
Abstract

Phytochmical investigation of roots of Actinidia chinensisPlanch. led to the isolation triterpenoids 1 - 16, including a new compound 2α,3α,23,24-tetrahydroxyursa-12,20(30)-dien-28-oic acid (1). Their structures were identified on the basis of spectroscopic analysis, including 1D- and 2D-NMR, HR-ESI mass spectrometry, and by comparison with the literatures. The cytotoxicities of triterpenoids 1 - 16 against a panel of cultured human Cancer cell lines (HepG2, A549, MCF-7, SK-OV-3, and HeLa) were evaluated. The new compound 1 exhibited moderate antitumor activities with IC50 values of 19.62 ± 0.81, 18.86 ± 1.56, 45.94 ± 3.62, 62.41 ± 2.29, and 28.74 ± 1.07 μm, respectively. The experiment data might be available to explain the use of roots of A. chinensis to treat various cancers in traditional Chinese medicine.

Keywords

Actinidia chinensis; Actinidiaceae; cytotoxic activities; triterpenoid.

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