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Synthesis and biological screening of analogues of bioactive acid constituents from the traditional Chinese medicinal plant Liquidambar Formosana
1, 2 , 3 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 5 , 6 , * 7
1  Institut Jožef Stefan, Jamova c. 39, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2  Instituto de Tecnologia Química, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
3  Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Vienna
4  BioLab, Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica “Antonio González”, Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Canarias, Universidad de La Laguna
5  Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
6  Departamento de Farmacia, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Avda. Seminario s/n, Moncada, Spain
7  Instituto de Tecnología Química, Universitat Politècnica de València-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avda. de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

Published: 31 October 2018 by MDPI in 4th International Electronic Conference on Medicinal Chemistry session ECMC-4
Abstract:

Liquidambar formosana (also known as maple) is a tall deciduous tree widely distributed in various regions of the South of the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River in China, and also found in Northern Vietnam, Laos and South Korea. L. formosana is a famous ornamental plant for leaves are green in spring and summer, and red in autumn. Different plant parts of L. formosana, such as leaf, fruit, bark, and resin, are proved to be treasures as natural medicinal plant resources [1]. Among the bioactive constituents, several diterpenoid acids of the abietane family have been identified. Abietic acid (1) occurs in plants of the genus Abies and is the first member of a class of plant metabolites, the abietane-type diterpenoids. They are characterized by a tricyclic ring system and have shown a wide range of chemical diversity and biological activity.[2,3] Medicinal chemists have studied derivatives of two readily available materials such as dehydroabietic acid (2) and dehydroabietylamine (3, DHAA).[3] To date, there is only one commercial drug, Ecabet® [ecabet sodium (4)], based on abietanes, which is used for the treatment of reflux esophagitis and peptic ulcer disease. Ferruginol (5) exhibits anticancer effects in human ovarian cancer and inhibition of cancer cell migration. Recent studies of sugiol (6) demonstrated in vivo antitumor activity in DU145 prostate xenografts. These biological reports and the simultaneous isolation, (in 2014) by Hua and co-workers, of the new abietane liquiditerpenoic acid A (7), a sugiol analogue, from the resin of Liquidambar formosana [4] and from Pinus massoniana,[5] by Kuo and co-workers named independently as abietopinoic acid, prompted us to synthesize it and study its biological properties along with some analogues.

References

[1] Ouyang, X. L.; Yi, S.; Lu, H. Y.; Wu, S. M.; Zhao, H. Q. Eur. J. Med. Plants 2016, 17, 1-11.

[2] For a review on this topic, see: González, M. A. Nat. Prod. Rep. 2015, 32, 684-704.

[3] For a review on this topic, see: González, M. A. Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 87, 834-842.

[4] Shang, H.-J.; Li, D.-Y.; Wang, W.-J.; Li, Z.-L.; Hua, H.-M. Nat. Prod. Res. 2014, 28, 1-6.

[5] Mohamed, H. A.; Hsieh, C.-L.; Hsu, C.; Kuo, C.-C.; Kuo, Y.-H. Helv. Chim. Acta 2014, 97, 1146-1151.

Keywords: diterpenoid; abietane; semisynthesis; antitumor; leukemia; GABAA receptor modulators; antileishmania
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