The organic extracts of two marine soft corals Pachyclavularia violacea and Subergorgia suberosa, collected along the coast of Kenting, Taiwan, were found to exhibit significant cytotoxicities toward several cancer cell lines (Table 1). In order to discover bioactive compounds, we have investigated the chemical constituents of these two marine organisms. Investigation on P. violacea has led to the isolation of twenty-five compounds, including twenty-one new compounds, pachyclavulariolide G (1), pachyclavulariolide H (3), pachyclavulariolide I (4), pachyclavulariolides J¡VS (6¡V15), pachyclavulariaenones A¡VG (16¡V22), secopachyclavulariaenone A (23), and four known compounds pachyclavulariolide (2), pachyclavulariolide E (5), pachyclavulariolide A (24) and pachyclavulariolide B (25).
Also, we have investigated the chemical constituents of S. suberosa. This study led to the isolation of fifteen compounds, including six new compounds, 2b-acetoxysubergorgic acid (27), subergorgiol (31), suberosols A¡VD (34¡V37), and nine known compounds, subergorgic acid (26), 2b-hydroxysubergorgic acid (28), methyl ester of subergorgic acid (29), 2b-acetoxy methyl ester of subergorgic acid (30), buddledin D (32), buddledin C (33), 5b-pregnan-3,20-dione (38), £G1- 5b-pregnen-3,20-dione (39) and 3a-acetoxy -5b-pregnan-20-one (40). Compounds 39, 40 were isolated from natural sources for the first time.
Structures of these compounds were determined on the basis of chemical method and spectroscopic evidences. Cytotoxicities of these compounds against P-388, KB, A-549 and HT-29 cancer cell lines also were described. Compound, 7, 32, 33, 36, 37 have been found to show moderate activity toward the above cancer cell lines.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1213101-171613 |
| Date | 13 December 2001 |
| Creators | Wang, Guey-Horng |
| Contributors | J-N Lin, Chang-Yih Duh, Yang-Chang Wu, Jyh-Horng Sheu, Ya-Ching Shen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1213101-171613 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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