摘要:
Descaudatine A (1), an undescribed phenolic glycoside, along with a known analogue (2) and ten flavonoids (3-12), were isolated from the whole plant of Desmodium caudatum. Compounds 1 and 4 exhibited potent antioxidant activities with the IC50 of 58.59 mu M and 31.31 mu M, respectively, which were approached to that of the positive control Vitamin C (IC50 = 46.32 mu M). Meanwhile, 12 showed moderate antioxidant activity with the IC50 of 173.9 mu M. Besides, compounds 3 and 6 inhibited the proliferation of HeLa cells with IC50 values of 56.14 mu M and 69.04 mu M, respectively. Further studies indicated that 3 and 6 could dose-dependently induce PARP cleavage and might trigger caspase-3, 8, 9 activation to induce apoptosis. RXR alpha is an ideal anticancer target of nuclear receptor. The reporter gene assay of RXR alpha indicated that 3 and 6 could inhibited the 9-cis-RA induced RXR alpha transcription in a concentration-dependent manner.