ABSTRACT
Geranylated coumarins named mammeasins G-J (1-4) were isolated from the methanol extract of the flowers of Mammea siamensis (Miq.) T. Anders. (Calophyllaceae) originating in Thailand. Their structures were established based on detailed spectroscopic analyses. The isolates, including previously reported coumarin constituents (5-28), exhibited anti-proliferative activities against human carcinoma cell lines HSC-2, HSC-4, MKN-45, and MCF-7. Mammeasin A (7, IC50 = 13.6 µM) and surangin B (15, 15.2 µM), both consisting of the geranyl group, were found to show relatively strong activities against HSC-4 cells and their mechanisms of action were found to involve apoptotic cell death.
Subject(s)
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic/pharmacology , Coumarins/pharmacology , Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/pathology , Mammea/chemistry , Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic/isolation & purification , Apoptosis , Carcinoma/drug therapy , Carcinoma/pathology , Cell Line, Tumor , Coumarins/isolation & purification , Flowers/chemistry , Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Humans , Molecular Structure , Phytochemicals/isolation & purification , Phytochemicals/pharmacology , Plants, Medicinal/chemistry , ThailandABSTRACT
Geranylated coumarin constituents, kayeassamin I (1) and mammeasins E (2) and F (3) were newly isolated from the methanol extract of the flowers of Mammea siamensis (Calophyllaceae) originating in Thailand, along with five known isolates, such as mammea E/BC (23), deacetylmammea E/AA cyclo D (31), deacetylmammea E/BB cyclo D (32), mammea A/AA cyclo F (34), and mammea A/AC cyclo F (35). These compounds (1-3) were obtained as an inseparable mixture (ca. 1:1 ratio) of the 3â³R and 3â³S forms, respectively. Among the isolated coumarins from the extract, mammeasins E (2, 22.6 µM), A (4, 19.0 µM), and B (5, 24.0 µM), kayeassamins E (9, 33.8 µM), F (10, 15.9 µM), and G (11, 17.7 µM), surangin C (13, 5.9 µM), and mammeas A/AA (17, 19.5 µM), E/BB (22, 16.8 µM), and A/AA cyclo F (34, 23.6 µM), were found to inhibit testosterone 5α-reductase.