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Le Dang Q, Vu HD, Nguyen VM, Choi GJ, Hoa LTP, Dung DT, Van Kiem P, Nhiem NX, De Tran Q, Nguyen QC, Nghiem DT, Quang DN. Desmodinosides A-E: New Flavonoid C-glycosides from Desmodium heterocarpon var. stigosum with hepatoprotective and antifungal activity. Fitoterapia 2023; 169:105609. [PMID: 37453701 DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2023.105609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
Abstract
Five new flavonoid C-glycosides named desmodinosides A-E (1-5) and one known compound, apigenin 6-C-β-d-xylopyranosyl-2''-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (6) have been isolated from the methanol extract of the aerial parts of Desmodium heterocarpon var. stigosum. These compounds were determined by 1D and 2D-NMR and HR-MS spectroscopies. The methanol extract of this plant, in particular, demonstrated hepatoprotection and antifungal inhibition. This extract has a remarkable hepatoprotection and activity-dose response with an EC50 of 43.07 μg/mL. The hepatoprotective effect on human liver hepatoma cells (HepG2) of the isolated flavonoid C-glycosides 1-6 was observed. Desmodinosides A-C (1-3) were found to exhibit moderate hepatoprotective activity on HepG2 cells. Of these, compound 2 showed the best hepatoprotective activity with an EC50 value of 74.12 μg/mL. While compounds 1 and 3 displayed EC50 values of 271.21 and 211.99 μg/mL, respectively. Quercetin, a positive control, also caused an EC50 value of 36.42 μg/mL. In addition to having hepatoprotective effect, the methanol extract had an inhibitory effect on the growth of oomycete; it inhibited Phytophthora infestans with IC50 of 13.3 μg/mL and IC90 of 78.7 μg/mL. The oomycete inhibition was directly attributed to compounds 5 and 6, which significantly inhibited P. infestans with IC50 values of 27.4 and 24.7 μg/mL, respectively. Both 5 and 6 and methanol extract were active against P. infestanse in a dose-dependent manner. Our study demonstrated for the first time the new flavonoid C-glycosides from D. heterocarpon var. stigosum and their novel pharmacological properties. The study findings also suggest the plant extract and its metabolites could be used as a new botanical source of bioactive compounds.
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- Quang Le Dang
- Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam; Graduate University of Science and Technology, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pesticides Technology, School of Chemical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 1 Dai Co Viet, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam
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- Eco-Friendly New Materials Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Republic of Korea
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- Eco-Friendly New Materials Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Republic of Korea
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- Hanoi National University of Education, 136 Xuanthuy Road, CauGiay, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam
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- Graduate University of Science and Technology, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam; Institute of Marine Biochemistry, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam
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- Graduate University of Science and Technology, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam; Institute of Marine Biochemistry, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam
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- Graduate University of Science and Technology, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam; Institute of Marine Biochemistry, VAST, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet str., Cau Giay dist., Hanoi 10072, Viet Nam
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Can Tho University, Can Tho 90000, Viet Nam
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Can Tho University, Can Tho 90000, Viet Nam
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- Botany Department, Hanoi University of Pharmacy, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam
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- Hanoi National University of Education, 136 Xuanthuy Road, CauGiay, Hanoi 10000, Viet Nam.
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Han BY, Wang ZL, Li J, Jin Q, Wang HT, Chen K, Yi Y, Ågren H, Qiao X, Ye M. A highly selective C-rhamnosyltransferase from Viola tricolor and insights into its mechanisms. Acta Pharm Sin B 2023; 13:3535-3544. [PMID: 37655315 PMCID: PMC10465961 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2023.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
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C-Glycosides are important natural products with various bioactivities. In plant biosynthetic pathways, the C-glycosylation step is usually catalyzed by C-glycosyltransferases (CGTs), and most of them prefer to accept uridine 5'-diphosphate glucose (UDP-Glc) as sugar donor. No CGTs favoring UDP-rhamnose (UDP-Rha) as sugar donor has been reported, thus far. Herein, we report the first selective C-rhamnosyltransferase VtCGTc from the medicinal plant Viola tricolor. VtCGTc could efficiently catalyze C-rhamnosylation of 2-hydroxynaringenin 3-C-glucoside, and exhibited high selectivity towards UDP-Rha. Mechanisms for the sugar donor selectivity of VtCGTc were investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and molecular mechanics with generalized Born and surface area solvation (MM/GBSA) binding free energy calculations. Val144 played a vital role in recognizing UDP-Rha, and the V144T mutant could efficiently utilize UDP-Glc. This work provides a new and efficient approach to prepare flavonoid C-rhamnosides such as violanthin and iso-violanthin.
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- Bo-Yun Han
- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 20, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
- College of Life Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 20, Sweden
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
- Peking University-Yunnan Baiyao International Medical Research Center, Beijing 100191, China
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Tsolmon B, Fang Y, Yang T, Guo L, He K, Li GY, Zhao H. Structural identification and UPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS 2 analysis of flavonoids in the aquatic plant Landoltia punctata and their in vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities. Food Chem 2020; 343:128392. [PMID: 33191012 DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.128392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Duckweeds have long been consumed as vegetables in several South Asian countries. In this study of the chemical constituents of duckweed Landoltia punctata, a new compound, apigenin 6-C-[β-D-apiofuranosyl-(1 → 2)]-β-D-glucopyranoside (1), and a previously LC-MS identified compound, quercetin 3-O-β-D-apiofuranoside (3), as well as three known compounds, luteolin 6-C-[β-D-apiofuranosyl-(1 → 2)]-β-D-glucopyranoside (2), apigenin 6-C-β-D-glucopyranoside (4), and luteolin 7-O-neohespirodise (5), were isolated and identified on the basis of MS and NMR spectroscopic analyses and chemical derivations. In total, 24 flavonoids were identified in L. punctata 0001 by UPLC-ESI-QTOF-MS2. In DPPH and ABTS assays, 3 exhibited significant antioxidant activity with IC50 values of 4.03 ± 1.31 µg/mL and 14.9 ± 2.28 µg/mL, respectively. In in vivo antioxidant activity assays, 1 significantly increased the survival rate of juglone-exposed Caenorhabditis elegans by 2 to 3-fold, and by 75% following thermal damage. Compounds 1-5 exhibited moderate scavenging capacities of intracellular reactive oxygen species in C. elegans exposed to H2O2.
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- Bolor Tsolmon
- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China; National Engineering Research Center for Natural Medicines, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China; National Engineering Research Center for Natural Medicines, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental and Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China; National Engineering Research Center for Natural Medicines, Chengdu 610041, People's Republic of China.
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