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Planta Med. 2011 Sep;77(13):1519-24. | Cytotoxic and antimicrobial activities of aporphine alkaloids isolated from Stephania venosa (Blume) Spreng.[Pubmed: 21305448] | METHODS AND RESULTS: The cytotoxic activity of five alkaloids, namely 4,5-dioxo-Dehydrocrebanine (1), Dehydrocrebanine (2), crebanine (3), oxostephanine (4), and thailandine (5) isolated from the tuber and leaves of Stephania venosa (Blume) Spreng was investigated.
CONCLUSIONS:
Thailandine showed the strongest activity against lung carcinoma cells (A549) (IC50 of 0.30 µg/mL) with very low cytotoxicity against normal embryonic lung cells (MRC-5). Thailandine also demonstrated strong activity against Plasmodium falciparum, K1 strain (IC50 of 20 ng/mL), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H(37)Ra (MIC of 6.25 µg/mL) as well as gram-positive bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. Oxostephanine exhibited strong activity against breast cancer (BC) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells (MOLT-3) with an IC50 of 0.24 and 0.71 µg/mL, respectively, and exhibited very low cytotoxicity against MRC-5 cells. Dehydrocrebanine demonstrated strong activity against promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) with an IC50 of 2.14 µg/mL whereas crebanine showed weak activity against cancer cell lines. However, both of them showed cytotoxicity against MRC-5 cells. | Planta Med. 1999 Dec;65(8):754-6. | Antimalarials from Stephania venosa, Prismatomeris sessiliflora, Diospyros montana and Murraya siamensis.[Pubmed: 10630122 ] | METHODS AND RESULTS: Fourteen compounds isolated from Stephania venosa, Prismatomeris sessiliflora, Diospyros montana and Murraya siamensis were tested for their antimalarial potential.
CONCLUSIONS:
The 6a,7-dehydroaporphine alkaloids dehydrostephanine and Dehydrocrebanine showed potent activity with IC50 values of 40 and 70 ng/ml, respectively. The 13C-NMR data of rubiadin, rubiadin-1-methyl ether, diospyrin and 5-hydroxy-4-methoxy-2-naphthal-dehyde were extensively studied. |
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