Steroids from the leaves of Chinese Melia azedarach and their cytotoxic effects on human cancer cell lines
摘要:
Three new (1-3) and several known (4-6) steroids were isolated from the leaves of Chinese Melia azedarach. The structures of the new compounds were elucidated by means of spectroscopic methods including 2D NMR techniques and mass spectrometry to be (20S)-5,24(28)-ergostadiene-3 beta,7 alpha,16 beta,20-tetrol (1), (20S)-5-ergostene-3 beta,7 alpha,16 beta,20-tetrol (2), and 2 alpha,3 beta-dihyro-5-pregnen-16-one (3). The cytotoxicities of the isolated compounds against three human cancer cell lines (A549, H460, U251) were evaluated; only compounds 1, 2, and (20S)-5-stigmastene-3 beta,7 alpha,20-triol (4) were found to show significant cyctotoxic effects with IC50S from 12.0 to 30.1 mu g/mL. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.