Three new abietane-type diterpene glycosides from the roots of Tripterygium wilfordii.

Three new abietane-type diterpene glycosides named as tripterycoside A (1), tripterycoside B (2), tripterycoside C (3), along with two known ones, 11-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-neotritophenolide (4), wilfordoside A (5), and nine other known compounds, 5-hydroxymethylmellein (6),1,2-bis-(3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-propanediol (7), leptolepisol C (8), icariol A2 (9), tripfordine A (10), 16α-hydroxy-ent-kauran-19-oic acid (11),wilforine (12), wilfordine (13), 3-acetyloleanolic acid (14),were isolated from the roots of Tripterygium wilfordii. Their structures have been elucidated on the basis of NMR and MS data. To the best of our knowledge, abietane-type diterpene glycosides were rarely reported natural products, especially abietane-type diterpene glycoside containing 7-oxo group (compound 3) was reported here for the first time. Furthermore, compounds 6, 7, 8 and 14 were isolated from this plant for the first time. Compounds 1-5 showed statistically significant inhibitory effects on IL-1β secretion in LPS-induced rat primary synovial fibroblasts at 10μM.