名称:
Isolation, Synthesis, and Structure−Activity Relationships of Bioactive Benzoquinones from Miconia lepidota from the Suriname Rainforest
摘要:
Bioactivity-directed fractionation of an EtOAc extract from the leaves of Miconia lepidota afforded the two benzoquinones 2-methoxy-6-heptyl-1,4-benzoquinone (1) and 2-methoxy-6-pentyl-1,4-benzoquinone (primin) (2). This is the first reported isolation of 1. Both quinones 1 and 2 exhibited activity toward mutant yeast strains based on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, indicative of their cytotoxicity and potential anticancer activity. A number of previously synthesized and new analogues were prepared and tested in the same strains. Compounds 1, 2, 2-methoxy-6-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone (5), and 2-methoxy-6-decyl-1,4-benzoquinone (6) were tested in two cytotoxicity assays. In the M109 tumor cell lines, quinones 1, 2, and 6 had an IC50 value of 10 mug/mL. In the A2780 cell line, compounds 1, 2 and 5 had IC50 values of 7.9, 2.9, and 3.2 mug/mL, respectively.