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Yoshiaki Kamano1, Toshihiko Nogawa, Ayano Yamashita, Masahiko Hayashi, Masuo Inoue, Pavel Drasar, George R Pettit.
Abstract
Steroid bufenolides resulting from epoxidation of the 17beta-2-pyrone ring of bufadienolides are rare. Five 20,21-epoxybufenolides, namely, 20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (1), 20R,21-epoxyresibufogenin (2), 3-O-formyl-20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (3), 3-O-formyl-20R,21-epoxyresibufogenin (4), and 3-oxo-20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (5), were isolated from the Chinese toad skin extract drug Ch'an Su. The structures were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The configuration at C-20 was assigned by the analysis of difference NOE spectra. The cancer cell (KB and MH-60) growth inhibition by the new 20,21-epoxybufenolides was examined, and 20,21-epoxides 1, 2, and 5 were found to significantly inhibit the leukemia MH-60 cell line.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12141860 DOI: 10.1021/np0200360
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Nat Prod ISSN: 0163-3864 Impact factor: 4.050