Several novel esters and amides of maslinic acid were prepared. Their evaluation for cytotoxic activity with a panel of human cancer cell lines using a sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay revealed for some of them a noteworthy activity. The results from annexinV-FITC and caspase-assays as well as from DNA laddering experiments provided evidence for an apoptotic cell death. A diacetylated benzylamide (15) induced a G1/G0 arrest in tumor cells. It also displayed an extraordinary cytotoxicity against human ovarian cancer cells but a 300 times lower toxicity for non-malignant primary human fibroblasts. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Converting maslinic acid into an effective inhibitor of acylcholinesterases
作者:Stefan Schwarz、Anne Loesche、Susana Dias Lucas、Sven Sommerwerk、Immo Serbian、Bianka Siewert、Elke Pianowski、René Csuk
DOI:10.1016/j.ejmech.2015.09.007
日期:2015.10
to act as inhibitors of cholinesterases, up to now maslinic acid has not been part of such studies. For this reason, three series of maslinic acid derivatives possessing modifications at different centers were synthesized and subjected to Ellman's assay to determine their inhibitory strength and type of inhibitory action. While parent compound maslinic acid was no inhibitor in these assays, some of