Novel antiproliferative falcarindiol furanocoumarin ethers from the root of Angelica japonica

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 1998 Jan 6;8(1):93-6. doi: 10.1016/s0960-894x(97)10193-7.

Abstract

Four novel antiproliferative furanocoumarin ethers of falcarindiol, named japoangelols A (8.5), B (7.2), C (7.4), and D (8.4), were isolated from the root of Angelica japonica together with panaxynol (0.3), falcarindiol (3.2), (9Z)-1,9-heptadecadiene-4,6-diyne-3,8,11-triol (2.2), and 8-acetoxyfalcarinol (3.2). Structures were established from the spectroscopic evidence, and the inhibitory activities (ED50, microgram/ml, shown in the parentheses) were evaluated using the MTT assay.

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / pharmacology*
  • Cell Division / drug effects
  • Diynes
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Ethers
  • Fatty Alcohols / chemistry*
  • Fatty Alcohols / pharmacology
  • Humans
  • Plant Roots / chemistry
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Diynes
  • Ethers
  • Fatty Alcohols
  • falcarindiol