Eight new compounds, including two cyclopenta [b]benzopyran derivatives (1, 2), two cyclopenta [b]benzofuran derivatives (3, 4), three cycloartane triterpenoids (5-7), and an apocarotenoid (8), together with 16 known compounds, were isolated from the chloroform-soluble partitions of separate methanol extracts of a combination of the fruits leaves and twigs, and of the roots of Aglaia perviridis collected in Vietnam. Isolation work was monitored using human colon cancer cells and facilitated with an LC/MS dereplication procedure. The structures of the new compounds (1-8) were determined on the basis of spectroscopic data interpretation. The Mosher ester method was employed to determine the absolute configurations of 5-7, and the absolute configurations of the 9,10-diol unit of compound 8 was established by a dimolybdenum tetraacetate [Mo 2 (AcO) 4 ] induced circular dichroism (ICD) procedure. Seven known rocaglate derivatives (9-15) exhibited significant cytotoxicity against the HT-29 cell line, with rocaglaol (9) being the most potent (ED 50 0.0007 µM). The new compounds 2-4 were also active against this cell line, with ED 50 values ranging from 0.46 to 4.7 µM. The cytotoxic compounds were evaluated against a normal colon cell line, CCD-112CoN. In addition, the new compound perviridicin B (2), three known rocaglate derivatives (9, 11, 12), as well as a known sesquiterpene, 2-oxaisodauc-5-en-12-al (17), showed significant NF-κB (p65) inhibitory activity in an ELISA assay.* Corresponding Author. Tel: +1-614-247-8094. Fax: +1-614-247-8119. kinghorn@pharmacy.ohio-state.edu. # Dedicated to Dr. Lester A. Mitscher, of the University of Kansas, for his pioneering work on the discovery of bioactive natural products and their derivatives ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information. 1 H, 13 C and 2D NMR spectra of compounds 1-8, 1 H NMR of (R)-and (S)-MTPA esters of 5-7. This material is available free-of-charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
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NIH-PA Author ManuscriptAglaia Lour., containing more than 120 species, is the largest genus of the plant family Meliaceae. 1 Aglaia species have attracted considerable interest in the area of natural products research, since they are a rich source of the "flavagline" class of bioactive agents. Flavagline derivatives have been proposed to be biogenetically derived from the coupling of a flavonoid unit and a cinnamic acid amide moiety, and can be divided into three subtypes, namely, the cyclopenta [b]benzofurans, the cyclopenta [b]benzopyrans, and the benzo [b]oxepines. [2][3][4][5] More than 100 flavaglines have been isolated from over 30 Aglaia species to date. [2][3][4][5] In a search for new anticancer agents from tropical plants, several Aglaia species, including Aglaia crassinervia, 6 A. edulis, 7 A. elliptica, 8 A. foveolata, 9-11 A. ponapensis, 12 and A. rubiginosa, 13 mainly collected from Indonesia, have been in...