Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, P. R. China
Abstract
A new flavone, 3-methoxy-5-hydroxy-[2”,3”:7,8] furanoflavone, pubinerone (1), was isolated from the twigs of Millettia pubinervis Kurz, together with ten known flavonoids, karanjin (2), kanjone (3), 3,6-dimethoxy-[2”,3”:7,8] furanoflavone (4), pongaglabrone (5), pongapin (6), pongaflavone (7), 3,6-dimethoxy-6”,6”-dimethylchromene-[2”,3”:7,8] flavone (8), pongachromene (9), 3,6-dimethoxy-3′,4′-methylenedioxy-6”,6”-dimethylchromene-[2”,3”:7,8] flavone (10) and demethoxykanugin (11). This is the first phytochemical investigation of this plant. The structure of compound 1 was elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data interpretation, including 1D and 2D NMR and HREIMS analysis. The cytotoxicity of 1 against five human cancer cell lines, HL-60, SMMC-7721, A-549, MCF-7 and SW480, was evaluated, but it was inactive (IC50>40μM).
Subject
Complementary and alternative medicine,Plant Science,Drug Discovery,Pharmacology,General Medicine
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