TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adem, Fozia A.
A1  - Kuete, Victor
A1  - Mbaveng, Armelle T.
A1  - Heydenreich, Matthias
A1  - Koch, Andreas
A1  - Ndakala, Albert
A1  - Irungu, Beatrice
A1  - Yenesew, Abiy
A1  - Efferth, Thomas
T1  - Cytotoxic flavonoids from two Lonchocarpus species
JF  - Natural Product Research
N2  - A new isoflavone, 4′-prenyloxyvigvexin A (1) and a new pterocarpan, (6aR,11aR)-3,8-dimethoxybitucarpin B (2) were isolated from the leaves of Lonchocarpus bussei and the stem bark of Lonchocarpus eriocalyx, respectively. The extract of L. bussei also gave four known isoflavones, maximaisoflavone H, 7,2′-dimethoxy-3′,4′-methylenedioxyisoflavone, 6,7,3′-trimethoxy-4′,5′-methylenedioxyisoflavone, durmillone; a chalcone, 4-hydroxylonchocarpin; a geranylated phenylpropanol, colenemol; and two known pterocarpans, (6aR,11aR)-maackiain and (6aR,11aR)-edunol. (6aR,11aR)-Edunol was also isolated from the stem bark of L. eriocalyx. The structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated by spectroscopy. The cytotoxicity of the compounds was tested by resazurin assay using drug-sensitive and multidrug-resistant cancer cell lines. Significant antiproliferative effects with IC50 values below 10 μM were observed for the isoflavones 6,7,3′-trimethoxy-4′,5′-methylenedioxyisoflavone and durmillone against leukemia CCRF-CEM cells; for the chalcone, 4-hydroxylonchocarpin and durmillone against its resistant counterpart CEM/ADR5000 cells; as well as for durmillone against the resistant breast adenocarcinoma MDA-MB231/BCRP cells and resistant gliobastoma U87MG.ΔEGFR cells.
KW  - Lonchocarpus bussei
KW  - Lonchocarpus eriocalyx
KW  - Leguminosae
KW  - isoflavone
KW  - pterocarpan
KW  - cytotoxicity
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2018.1462179
SN  - 1478-6419
SN  - 1478-6427
VL  - 33
IS  - 18
SP  - 2609
EP  - 2617
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adem, Fozia A.
A1  - Kuete, Victor
A1  - Mbaveng, Armelle T.
A1  - Heydenreich, Matthias
A1  - Ndakala, Albert
A1  - Irungu, Beatrice
A1  - Efferth, Thomas
A1  - Yenesew, Abiy
T1  - Cytotoxic benzylbenzofuran derivatives from Dorstenia kameruniana
JF  - Fitoterapia
N2  - Chromatographic separation of the extract of the roots of Dorstenia kameruniana (family Moraceae) led to the isolation of three new benzylbenzofuran derivatives, 2-(p-hydroxybenzyl)benzofuran-6-ol (1), 2-(p-hydroxybenzyl)-7-methoxybenzofuran-6-ol (2) and 2-(p-hydroxy)-3-(3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl)benzyl)benzofuran-6-ol (3) (named dorsmerunin A, B and C, respectively), along with the known furanocoumarin, bergapten (4). The twigs of Dorstenia kameruniana also produced compounds 1-4 as well as the known chalcone licoagrochalcone A (5). The structures were elucidated by NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The isolated compounds displayed cytotoxicity against the sensitive CCRF-CEM and multidrug-resistant CEM/ADR5000 leukemia cells, where compounds 4 and 5 had the highest activities (IC50 values of 7.17 mu M and 5.16 mu M, respectively) against CCRF-CEM leukemia cells. Compound 5 also showed cytotoxicity against 7 sensitive or drug-resistant solid tumor cell lines (breast carcinoma, colon carcinoma, glioblastoma), with IC50 below 50 mu M, whilst 4 showed selective activity.
KW  - Dorstenia kameruniana
KW  - Moraceae
KW  - Benzylbenzofuran
KW  - Furanocoumarin
KW  - Chalcone
KW  - Cytotoxicity
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2018.04.019
SN  - 0367-326X
SN  - 1873-6971
VL  - 128
SP  - 26
EP  - 30
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -