Isolation and structure of a 20,21-epoxybufenolide series from "Ch'an Su"

J Nat Prod. 2002 Jul;65(7):1001-5. doi: 10.1021/np0200360.

Abstract

Steroid bufenolides resulting from epoxidation of the 17beta-2-pyrone ring of bufadienolides are rare. Five 20,21-epoxybufenolides, namely, 20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (1), 20R,21-epoxyresibufogenin (2), 3-O-formyl-20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (3), 3-O-formyl-20R,21-epoxyresibufogenin (4), and 3-oxo-20S,21-epoxyresibufogenin (5), were isolated from the Chinese toad skin extract drug Ch'an Su. The structures were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The configuration at C-20 was assigned by the analysis of difference NOE spectra. The cancer cell (KB and MH-60) growth inhibition by the new 20,21-epoxybufenolides was examined, and 20,21-epoxides 1, 2, and 5 were found to significantly inhibit the leukemia MH-60 cell line.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents / isolation & purification*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Bufanolides / chemistry
  • Bufanolides / isolation & purification*
  • Bufanolides / pharmacology
  • Bufonidae
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Chromatography, Thin Layer
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Epoxy Compounds / chemistry
  • Epoxy Compounds / isolation & purification*
  • Epoxy Compounds / pharmacology
  • HL-60 Cells / drug effects
  • Humans
  • KB Cells / drug effects
  • Leukemia, Myeloid
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional
  • Mice
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
  • Skin / metabolism
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / drug effects

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Bufanolides
  • Epoxy Compounds
  • chan su