“…Diterpenoid alkaloids are the most widely reported compounds from S. barbata with cytotoxic activities tested on cancer cell lines. Their in vitro cytotoxicities have been identified on at least one of the following cancer cell lines including HONE-1 nasopharyngeal, KB oral epidermoid carcinoma, HT29 colorectal carcinoma, 19 -22,29,30,35 -37,39,53,54 HL-60 leukemia, 27,31,32,40 SK-BR-3 breast adenocarcinoma, 32 K562 erythromyeloblastoid leukemia, HepG2 and SMMC-7721 hepatocellular carcinoma, 3,23,24,39 A549 lung adenocarcinoma, 3,23 LNCaP prostate cancer, SK-MEL-2 melanoma, 39 MCF-7 breast adenocarcinoma, 24,37,39 SGC7901 gastric cancer, 33 LoVo, 24 HCT-116, 24,28 and SW480 colon adenocarcinoma cells 32 with IC 50 values ranging from 2.0 to over 100 µM. The 6-(2,3-epoxy-2-isopropyl- n -propoxyl) barbatin C (Figure 3) was the most cytotoxic neo-clerodane diterpenoid reported so far with IC 50 as low as 2.0 µM to KB oral epidermoid cancer cells.…”