The recent research progress of chemistry of marine natural products / 药学学报

Ocean is a unique and excellent resource that provides a diverse array of intriguing natural products. Marine natural products have demonstrated significant and extremely potent biological activities and have captured the attention of natural products chemists in the past few decades. It is increasingly recognized that a wealth of fascinating natural products and novel chemical entities will play a dominant role in the discovery of useful leads for the development of pharmaceutical agents and provide useful probes to lead to breakthroughs in a variety of life-science fields. This article focused on the research progress of chemistry of marine natural products in recent five years.

In vivo and in vitro anti-tumor activity studies of five sesquiterpenoids from Inula helenium / 中国药理学通报

Aim To detect the antitumor activities of five sesquiterpene lactones from the roots of Inula helenium.Method Using MTT assay to evaluate the antitumor activities of five sesquiterpene lactones to the cell lines of U251SP,T-98,HLE,MM1-CB,HMV-1 and KT,and to explore the relationship between structure and activities.Results Isoalantolactone exhibited significant anti-growth activities to U251SP,HLE and MM1-CB,while other compounds demonstrated weak or moderate anti-growth activities to cell lines even in the 50% inhibition concentration≤100 μmol·L~(-1).Conclusion Isoalantolactone exhibits significant anti-growth activities to three cell lines and its anti-tumor activitiesve close relationship with the structures,α,β-unsaturated five-membered lactone ring is necessary for the activities,and saturated lactone or 5,10-seco and A,B-ring become a ten-membered macro-ring leading to the loss or decrease of anti-growth activity.