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Cycloartane glycosides from Sutherlandia frutescens.

ABSTRACT: Four new cycloartane glycosides, sutherlandiosides A-D (1-4), were isolated from the South African folk medicine Sutherlandia frutescens and their structures established by spectroscopic methods and X-ray crystallography as 1 S,3 R,24S,25-tetrahydroxy-7S,10S-epoxy-9,10- seco-9,19-cyclolanost-9(11)-ene 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (1), 3R,7S,24S,25-tetrahydroxycycloartan-1-one 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (2), 3R,24S,25-trihydroxycycloartane-1,11-dione 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (3), and 7S,24S,25-trihydroxycycloart-2-en-1-one 25-O-beta-D-glucoyranoside (4). Compound 1 represents the first secocycloartane skeleton possessing a 7,10-oxygen bridge. Compounds 2- 4 are also the first examples of naturally occurring cycloartanes with a C-1 ketone functionality. Biosynthetic considerations and chemical evidence suggest that the presence of the C-1 ketone in 2 may facilitate the ring opening of the strained cyclopropane system.

SUBMITTER: Fu X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3457064 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cycloartane glycosides from Sutherlandia frutescens.

Fu Xiang X Li Xing-Cong XC Smillie Troy J TJ Carvalho Paulo P Mabusela Wilfred W Syce James J Johnson Quinton Q Folk William W Avery Mitchell A MA Khan Ikhlas A IA

Journal of natural products 20080923 10

Four new cycloartane glycosides, sutherlandiosides A-D (1-4), were isolated from the South African folk medicine Sutherlandia frutescens and their structures established by spectroscopic methods and X-ray crystallography as 1 S,3 R,24S,25-tetrahydroxy-7S,10S-epoxy-9,10- seco-9,19-cyclolanost-9(11)-ene 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (1), 3R,7S,24S,25-tetrahydroxycycloartan-1-one 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (2), 3R,24S,25-trihydroxycycloartane-1,11-dione 25-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (3), and 7S,24S,25 ...[more]

PMID: 18808182

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Project description:BackgroundSutherlandia frutescens is one of the most promising commercialized, indigenous and medicinal plants of South Africa that is used as an immune-booster, and a traditional treatment for cancer. However, few studies report on its toxicology and dosage in vivo. There is still room to better understand its cytotoxicity effects in animal systems.MethodsWe prepared two extracts, one with 80% (v/v) ethanol, and the other, with water. Both were studied to determine the maximum tolerable concentration when extracts were applied at 0 to 200 μg/ml to a Tuebingen zebrafish embryo line. The development of zebrafish embryos after 24 h post fertilization (hpf) was studied. A concentration range of 5 μg/ml to 50 μg/ml was then chosen to monitor the ontological development of cultured embryos. A liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was used to study the differences of the two experimental extracts. Chemical variation between the extracts was illustrated using chemometrics.ResultsBoth extracts led to bleeding and pericardial cyst formation when applied at high concentrations to the zebrafish embryo culture. Chronic teratogenic toxicities, leading to pericardial edema, yolk sac swelling, and other abnormal developmental characteristics, were detected. The aqueous extracts of S. frutescens were less toxic to the larvae than the ethanol extracts, validating preference for aqueous preparations when used in traditional medicine. Chemical differences between the water extracts and alcoholic extracts were analysed using LC-MS/MS. A supervised metabolomics approach, targeting the sutherlandiosides and sutherlandins using orthogonal partial least squares-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), illustrated that sutherlandiosides were the main chemical features that can be used to distinguish between the two extracts, despite the extracts being highly similar in their chemical constituents.ConclusionThe water extract caused less cytotoxic and abnormal developmental effects compared to the ethanolic extract, and, this is likely due to differences in concentrations of extracted chemicals rather than the chemical profile per se. This study provides more evidence of cytotoxicity effects linked to S. frutescens using the zebrafish embryo bioassay as a study tool.

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