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Isolation and identification of two pairs of cytotoxic diterpene tautomers and their tautomerization mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Discovering anticancer drugs that do not have adverse side effects has been a developing research field worldwide in recent decades. In this work, four previously undescribed cytotoxic diterpenoids were isolated from the aerial parts of Isodon excisoides. Interestingly, these four diterpenoids were two pairs of tautomers that were first reported in plants. Their structures were further elucidated using various spectroscopic methods. The tautomerization phenomenon and mechanism for these two pairs of tautomers were emphatically described. The theoretical simulation results indicated that the diterpene tautomerization is greatly related to certain factors, including the existence of a transition state, the change of bond length and the level of conversion energy; the tautomerization for the two pairs of tautomers is mainly caused by proton transfer. For bioassays, the cytotoxicities of the tautomers against five human cancer cell lines were also investigated. The results indicated that each of the four diterpenoids showed significant cytotoxicity in at least three cell lines and could serve as potential anticancer agents for further investigation.

SUBMITTER: Dai LP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6989466 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Isolation and identification of two pairs of cytotoxic diterpene tautomers and their tautomerization mechanisms.

Dai Li-Ping LP Li Xiao-Fei XF Feng Qing-Mei QM Zhang Ling-Xia LX Liu Qiu-Yan QY Xu Er-Ping EP Wu Hong H Wang Zhi-Min ZM

Scientific reports 20200129 1

Discovering anticancer drugs that do not have adverse side effects has been a developing research field worldwide in recent decades. In this work, four previously undescribed cytotoxic diterpenoids were isolated from the aerial parts of Isodon excisoides. Interestingly, these four diterpenoids were two pairs of tautomers that were first reported in plants. Their structures were further elucidated using various spectroscopic methods. The tautomerization phenomenon and mechanism for these two pair ...[more]

PMID: 31996737

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