南丹参化学成分研究

从南丹参根中分得分得16个化合物,经光谱和理化分析测定,鉴定了其中的10个,分别为丹酚酸C（salvianolic acid C）、4-羟基-1-乙烯羧基-7-（3,4-二羟基苯基）苯并[b]呋喃（4-hydroxy-1-vinyl carboxy-7-（3,4-dihydroxyphenyl）benzo[b]furan）、丹参酮ⅡA（tanshinoneⅡA）,丹参酮Ⅰ（tanshinoneⅠ）、二氢异丹参酮（dihydroisotanshinone）、7-羰基-12-羟基脱氯松香烷（7-carbonyl-12-hydroxy—dehydroabietane）、十八醇（octadecanol）、丹参内酯（tanshinlactone）、1,2-顺式-2-（3,4-二甲氧基-5-羟基苯基）-丙烯酸（1,2-cis-2-（3,4-dimethoxy-5-hydroxyphenyl）-acrylic acid、β-谷甾醇（β—sitosterol）。     

短瓣金莲花苯乙素类化学成分研究

金莲花药材经乙醇提取,聚酰胺、反相硅胶、凝胶柱色谱法分离得到4个苯乙素类化合物,根据理化性质和光谱数据分别鉴定为2-（3,4-二羟基-苯基）乙醇葡萄糖苷、2-（4-羟基,3-0-葡萄糖苯基）乙醇、2-苯基乙醇葡萄糖苷、2-（4-羟基苯基）乙醇葡萄糖苷。均为首次从该属植物中得到。     

木瓜化学成分的研究

从木瓜[Chaenomeles speciosa（Sweet）Nakai]果实的乙酸乙酯提取物中分离并鉴定了4个化合物,利用现代波谱技术（MS、^1H NMR、^13C NMR）进行结构鉴定,它们分别为对苯二酚（1）、3,4-二羟基苯甲酸（2）、槲皮素（3）和3-羟基丁二酸甲酯（4）.2,2-二苯基-1-苦肼基（DPPH）自由基清除试验表明化合物（1～3）显示抗氧化活性.化合物1～4均为首次从该植物中获得.     

罗平产生姜的化学成分

从生姜(Zingiber officinaleRosc.)的根茎中分离得一个骨架新颖的天然产物,经波谱鉴定为一个新的生姜内酯(1),同时分离得到7个已知化合物,分别为6-姜烯酚(2),1-去氢姜二酮(3),6-姜磺酸(4),3,5-二酮-1,7-二-{(3-甲氧基-4-羟基)-苯基}-庚烷(5),姜酮A(6),β-谷甾醇(7)和豆甾醇(8)。     

紫茎泽兰中的酚类化学成分

从紫茎泽兰(Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng.)乙醇提取物中分离得到11个酚类化合物。通过波谱分析,分别鉴定为咖啡酸(1)、阿魏酸(2)、芥子醛(3)、苯乙基阿魏酯(4)、3,4-二羟基苯甲酸(5)、4-羟基-3-甲氧基苯甲酸(6)、3,4-二甲氧基苯甲酸(7)、没食子酸(8)、3-(3,4-二羟基苯基)-1-丙醇(9)、2-香豆酸-β-D-吡喃葡萄糖苷(10)和4-O-β-D-葡萄糖苷-3,5-二甲氧基苯基-乙基酮(11)。化合物3~9和11为首次从紫茎泽兰中分离得到。     

草珊瑚中一个新的苯基丙二醇类化合物

从金粟兰科植物草珊瑚（Sarcandra glabra）全株的水提取物中分离得到一个新的苯基丙二醇类化合物（2S）-3, 3-二-（4-羟基-3-甲氧基苯基）-丙-1, 2-二醇 （1）,以及一个已知化合物,银线草内酯E （2）,并利用NMR、MS、旋光值等波谱学技术鉴定其了结构。     

中药大蓟化学成分的研究

从大蓟的50％乙醇提取物中分离得到2个木脂素：（-）2-（3’-甲氧基4’-羟基-苯基）-3,4-二羟基4-（3＂-4＂-羟基-苄基）-3-四氢呋哺甲醇（1）和络石苷（2）,以及另外6个化合物：蒙花苷（3）、柳穿鱼叶苷（4）、粗毛豚草素（5）、芹菜素（6）、咖啡酸（7）和对-香豆酸（8）。本文首次在蓟属植物中发现木脂素类成分,化合物7也为首次从本植物中分离得到,通过体外玻片法对化合物1—8进行凝血活性测定,发现化合物3、4具有一定的促凝血作用。     

瓦宁木层孔菌中5个化合物的抗肿瘤活性筛选

采用MTT法对从瓦宁木层孔菌子实体中分离得到的化合物樱花亭、7-甲氧基二氢莰非素、4-（3,4-二羟苯基）-3-丁烯-2-酮、二氢莰非素、hispolon进行了体外抗肿瘤活性研究。试验结果表明：当质量浓度为100μg/mL时,化合物4-（3,4-二羟苯基）-3-丁烯-2-酮和hispolon对人肝癌细胞SMMC-772...     

苣叶丹参的多酚类化合物

自云南省文山州产的中药丹参代用植物苣叶丹参(SalviasonchifoliaCYWu)的根中分离得到9个多酚类化合物。即:原儿茶醛,原儿茶酸,咖啡酸,R( )βD(3,4-二羟基苯基)乳酸,3,4-二羟基苯基乙醇酮,迷迭香酸,迷迭香酸甲酯,紫草酸和紫草酸B。它们的结构通过波谱方法得到鉴定。研究结果表明,苣叶丹参含有与正品丹参相似的酚类化合物。     

姜黄地上部分化学成分的研究

为了解姜黄(Curcuma longa L.)地上部分的化学成分,采用硅胶、葡聚糖凝胶柱色谱和高效液相色谱从姜黄地上部分分离得到14个化合物。通过波谱分析,分别鉴定为槲皮素3-O-α-L-鼠李糖苷(1)、山柰酚3-O-α-L-鼠李糖(1→2)-α-L-鼠李糖苷(2)、橙皮素7-O-α-L-鼠李糖(1→6)-β-D-葡萄糖苷(3)、1,7-二(4-羟基苯基)庚烷-4E,6E-二烯-3-酮(4)、1,7-二(4-羟基苯基)庚烷-1E,4E,6E-三烯-3-酮(5)、3-羟基-4-甲氧基肉桂酸(6)、对羟基苯甲醛(7)、香草醛(8)、4-羟基-3-甲氧基苯甲酸(9)、异香草酸(10)、4-(1-羟基-1-甲基乙基)苯甲酸(11)、R-6-羟基-6-甲基-3-(2-羟基异丙基)-2-烯环己酮(12)、6,9-二羟基-4,7-巨豆二烯-3-酮(13)和β-胡萝卜苷(14)。化合物1、2、3、12和13首次从该植物中分离得到。经HPLC比较分析,姜黄地上部分缺乏姜黄药材的主要功能成分姜黄素。     

A New Antioxidant Cyclic Diarylheptanoid from the Rhizomes of Zingiber officinale

The bioassay was directed to the fractionation of the methanol extract of the rhizomes of Zingiber officinale Roscoe leading to the isolation of a new antioxidant cyclic diarylheptanoid. The structure of the new compoundwas established as 1,5-epoxy-3-hydroxy-1-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-methoxy-phenyl)-7-(3,4-dihydroxy-phenyl) heptane (1) on the basis of MS, 1D and 2D-NMR experiments.     

Constitutions of diarylpropanoids from Virola multinervia

The wood of Virola multinervia Ducke (Myristicaceae) contains sitosterol, stigmasterol and two novel diarylpropanoids virolane [1-(2-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-3-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-propane] and virolanol [2-hydroxy-1-(2-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-3-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-propane].     

Photoinduction kinetics of electrical potential in a single chloroplast as studied with micro-electrode technique

1. Using single chloroplasts of Peperomia metallica the kinetics of light-induced potential changes were studied. Three kinetic components (the initial fast rise, the decay in the light and the decay in the dark) were found to be characterized by time constants 4, 220 and 60 ms, respectively at light intensity 5000 lx and temperature 18 °C. After flash excitation the potential kept on rising for about 10 ms. Cooling of the medium down to 5 °C had no effect on the duration of potential rise after the flash.2. Variations in the medium temperature in the range 2–23 °C had little effect on photoresponse magnitude but resulted in significant acceleration of decay in the light.3. Addition of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (5 · 10^?6 M) resulted in suppression of the magnitude of the photoresponse but was not accompanied by any change in the rate of initial rise of potential. 3-(3,4-Dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea-inhibited photoresponse could be restored and even enhanced by subsequent addition of N-methylphenazonium methosulfate (10^?4 M). N-Methylphenazonium methosulfate essentially influenced the time course and light-intensity curves of photoresponse.4. The chloroplast photoresponses were of different time-courses when elicited by red (640 nm) or far red (712 nm) light. This fact as well as an enhancement effect of combined illumination by two intermittent light beams indicate on the interaction of two photosynthetic pigment systems when the photoelectric response was formed.5. An imposed electrical field resulted in stimulation or suppression of chloroplast photoresponse depending on the polarity of the field. No indications for the existance of “reversal potential” for photoelectric response were obtained.6. A kinetic scheme of photoresponse formation is proposed, which includes two sequential photochemical reactions of photosynthesis.     

1-(3,4-Dihydroxy-5-Methoxyphenyl-3-Methylbut-2-Ene from The Liverworth Plagiochila Rutilans

Extraction of the liverwort Plagiochila rutilans afforded 1-(3,4-dihydroxy-5-methoxyphenyl)3-methylbut-2-ene, the structure of which was confirmed by synthesis.     

pH control of the chlorophyll a fluorescence in algae

The pH of the suspension medium was found to have a remarkable influence on the “slow” (min) time course of Chlorophyll a fluorescence yield in the green alga Chlorella pyrenoidosa and in the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans. In Chlorella, the decay of fluorescence yield, in the 1- to 5-min region, is strongly retarded at alkaline pH; this decay rate shows an optimum at pH 6–7. In Anacystis, the rise of fluorescence yield, in the same time range, is decreased optimally at pH 6–7; poisoning with 3(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea reverses the direction of this pH effect. These observations suggest a correlation of the H⁺ status (or the processes associated with it such as photophosphorylation and resulting conformational changes) of the chloroplast to the yield of chlorophyll a fluorescence in vivo.     

New results on the mode of action of 3,-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea in spinach chloroplasts

Simultaneous measurements of hydroxylamine photo-oxidation and fluorescence induction were performed in the presence of 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU). The results provide a justification for the common use of fluorescence data to estimate the concentration of active System II centers in the presence of inhibitors.The addition of DCMU to dark-adapted chloroplasts under special conditions induces a large increase of the initial yield of fluorescence. A reversible inactivation of part of the System II centers is responsible for this effect. Similar data were obtained with other classical inhibitors of oxygen evolution.     

Computational validation of 3-ammonio-3-(4-oxido- 1H-imidazol-1-ium-5-yl) propane-1, 1-bis (olate) as a potent anti-tubercular drug against mt-MetAP

The advent of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) necessitated search for new drug targets for the bacterium. It is reported that 3.3% of all new tuberculosis cases had multidrug resistance (MDR-TB) in 2009 and each year, about 0.44 million MDR-TB cases are estimated to emerge and 0.15 million people with MDR-TB die. Keeping such an alarming situation under consideration we wanted to design suitable anti tubercular molecules for new target using computational tools. In the work Methionine aminopeptidase (MetAP) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was considered as target and three non-toxic phenolic=ketonic compounds were considered as ligands. Docking was done with Flex X and AutoDock 4.2 separately. Ten proven inhibitors of MetAP were collected from literature with their IC50 and were correlated using EasyQSAR to generate QSAR model. Activity of ligands in question was predicted from QSAR. Pharmacophore for each docking was generated using Ligandscout 3.0. Toxicity of the ligands in question was predicted on Mobyle@rpbs portal and Actelion property explorer. Molecular docking with target showed that of all three ligands, 3-ammonio-3-(4-oxido-1H-imidazol-1-ium-5-yl) propane-1, 1-bis (olate) has highest affinity (- 37.5096) and lowest IC50 (4.46 µM). We therefore, propose that -3-ammonio-3-(4-oxido-1H-imidazol-1-ium-5-yl) propane-1,1- bis(olate) as a potent MetAP inhibitor may be a new anti-tubercular drug particularly in the context of Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB).     

Photodesmosine,an isomer of desmosine obtained by photolysis of this amino acid in ultraviolet light

Desmosine and isodesmosine are two isomers representing the main cross-links of elastin. We describe a new isomer, photodesmosine, which is produced by the photolysis of desmosine at 254 nm. The mechanism of this photolysis is described and is shown to consist of two competing paths. After opening of the pyridium ring to give a tetrasubstituted aminoketone, this compound can either be hydrolysed to give lysine and a trisubstituted analogue of glutaconic aldehyde or undergo a recyclisation and rearomatisation to give a pyridium compound substituted in positions 1, 2, 3 and 4. An understanding of this mechanism is important in order to use photolysis as a specific method to break elastin cross-links. Although only desmosine and isodesmosine have been reported in purified elastin, the chromatographic properties of photodesmosine suggests that if other natural isomers exist in this protein they could be eluted from an ion-exchange resin at much earlier times than those observed in the case of the two already described cross-links.     

Photosynthetic oxygen production and the size of the photosynthetic unit in a cell-free preparation from Cyanidium caldarium

A cell-free preparation has been isolated from a mutant of Cyanidium caldarium, grown under conditions such that there is 15 times less chlorophyll per photosynthetic unit than in normal green algae. The preparation is sensitive to 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea and shows the well-characterized oscillation of O₂ yield, from saturating flashes, following a period of dark adaptation. Greening experiments with dark-grown, wild-type Cyanidium show that the synthesis of photosynthetic units precedes that of bulk chlorophyll and that the O₂-producing system is assembled before the total system coupled to CO₂. No large-scale cooperation of chlorophyll molecules is required for O₂ production.