• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.1619-1624
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• 2014

A new series of carbazole based 2,4-disubstituted thiazole derivatives were synthesized. All the synthesized compounds were tested for their cytotoxicity against three different cancer cell lines A549, MCF-7, and HT29. Some of these compounds showed good cytotoxicity. These compounds were also evaluated for antioxidant activity. Compounds 3a, 3b, 3d-f and 3i showed higher antioxidant activity than standard BHT.

• Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.143-155
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• 2001

Many attention has been focused on developing new chemotherapeutic agents for a treatment of cancer from natural products. From Carpesium divaricatum S. et Z. (Compositae), various monoterpenoid compounds were isolated and exhibited mild antitumor activity against human tumor cell lines. These facts prompted us to explore the structure-activity relationship of these compounds. The synthesis of monoterpenoid compound was accomplished by Fries rearrangement, Grignard reaction, elimination, allylic oxidation, esterification and epoxidation as key steps. The results of in vitro cytotoxicity (A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF498, HCT15) of the synthesised compounds are as follows: First of all, epoxide moiety is prerequisite for cytotoxic activity in diester compound. Any kind of compounds with olefin or diol moiety instead of epoxide ring exhibited poor or mild cytotoxic activity respectively. Of o-acetoxy and isobutoxy epoxy esters, p-sub-stituted phenylacetate compounds exhibited high cytotoxic activities against SK-MEL-2 and HCT15.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.227-232
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• 2012

Ten known compounds, 7-hydroxysauchinone (1), sauchinone (2), di-O-methyltetrahydrofuriguaiacin B (3), henricine (4), saucerneol K (5), meso-dihydroguaiaretic acid (6), (-)-guaiacin (7), (3R,4S)-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-4-methoxy-3-methylbutan-2-one (8), (E)-7-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-7-methylbut-8-en-9-one (9), and licarin A (10), were isolated from aerial part of Sarurus chinensis. The chemical structures of these compounds were determined on the basis of spectroscopic analyses including 2D NMR. Compounds 1 - 10 were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity against the HL-60, MCF-7, and A549 cancer cell lines in in vitro.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.29 no.12
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• pp.1091-1095
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• 2006

For the development of novel antitumor agents, we designed and synthesized terpyridines, and their biological activities were evaluated. Although most of the newly prepared terpyridines showed strong cytotoxicity against several human cancer cell lines, [2,2';6',2"]-terpyridine displayed the most significant cytotoxicity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.356-359
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• 1992

The activity-oriented fractionation of Psoralea corylifolia led to an isolation of a (+) bakuchio 1 as an activ eprinciple of its antitumoral property in vitro 1 was observed to exhibit a mild cytotoxicity against five kinds of cultured human cancer cell lines, i. e. the A549, SK-OV-3, SK-MEL-2, XF-498 and HCT15. The synthesized 2, 3-epoxide of (+)-bakuchiol 3 showed the similar activity as the (+) bakuchiol 1, whereas the other oxidation derivatives 4 and 5 including the acetyl (+) bakuchiol 2 showed a decreased activity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.240-249
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• 2002

Dibenzyl-g-butyrolactone and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2-naphthoic acid $\gamma$-lactone (TNL) derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for cytotoxic activity against some cancer cell lines. It was found that TNL derivatives with a shorter distance between C-4 in ring A and C'-2 in ring C were more cytotoxic, while dibenzyl-${\gamma}$-butyrolactones with a longer one were nearly inactive. In TNL series, presence of 3,4-dioxy group in ring A and 2-methoxy group in ring C was essential for the enhancement of the activity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1042-1046
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• 2005

Two known modified dipeptides, trichodermamide A (1) and aspergillazine A (2), were isolated from an ethyl acetate extract of the metabolite of a marine-derived fungus Spicaria elegans, and were found to have a weak cytotoxic effect on three cancer cell lines P388, A-549, and HL-60 agreed. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the isolation of compounds 1 and 2 from the fungus Spicaria elegans and their cytotoxic effect.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.323-326
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• 1995

Through bioassay-guided separation of the chemical constituents from the heartwood of Dalbergia odorifera, an 2'-O-methoxyisoliquiritigenin(1) was isolated as cytotoxic principle. 1 showed potent cytotoxic activity against the three kinds of human cancer cell lines (A-549, SK-MEL-2 and SK-OV-3) with similar activity to 5-Fluorouracil.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.25 no.4 s.99
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• pp.319-327
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• 1994

A new diterpene, agastanol[1] with dehydroagastol[2] was isolated from th root of Agastache rugosa, and their structures were elucidated by chemical and instrumental analysis. Agastanol[1], its derivatives, agastanone[3] and methylagastanol[5], and dehydroagastol[2] showed cytotoxic activites against in vitro human cancer cell lines. Agastanol[1] showed weak antifungal activity against Trichophyton rubrum.

• Natural Product Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.90-95
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• 2009

Phytochemical investigation of the MeOH extract of the leaves of Nelumbo nucifera resulted in the isolation of five norsesquiterpenes, four flavonoids, two triterpenes and one alkaloid. Their chemical structures were characterized by spectroscopic methods to be (E)-3-hydroxymegastigm-7-en-9-one (1), (3S,5R,6S,7E)- megastigma-7-ene-3,5,6,9-tetrol (2), dendranthemoside B (3), icariside $B_2$ (4), sedumoside $F_1$ (5), luteolin (6), quercetin 3-0-${\beta}$-D-glucuronide (7), quercetin 3-0-${\beta}$-D-glucoside (8), isorhamnetin 3-0-rutinoside (9), alphitolic acid (10), maslinic acid (11), and N-methylasimilobine (12). Norsesquiterpenoids (1-5) and triterpenes (10-11) were isolated for the first time from this plant. Compounds 6 and 10-12 exhibited considerable cytotoxicity against four human cancer cell lines in vitro using a SRB bioassay.