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Potential cancer chemopreventive agents from Arbutus unedo 

Authors: Esperanza J. Carcache-Blanco a;  Muriel Cuendet a;  Eun Jung Park a;  Bao-Ning Su a;  J. Fausto Rivero-Cruz a;  Norman R. Farnsworth a;  John M. Pezzuto a; A. Douglas Kinghorn a
Affiliation:   a Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
DOI: 10.1080/14786410500161205
Publication Frequency: 20 issues per year
Published in: journal Natural Product Research, Volume 20, Issue 4 April 2006 , pages 327 - 334
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)
Previously published as: Natural Product Letters (1057-5634) until 2003
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Abstract

A phytochemical study of the petroleum ether and ethyl acetate extracts of the entire plant of Arbutus unedo led to the isolation of a new sterol, 7β-hydroxystigmast-4-en-3-one (1), and nine known compounds of the flavan, steroid, and terpenoid types. The structure of 1 was determined by spectroscopic data interpretation in combination with molecular modeling calculations. The absolute stereochemistry of C-7 was assigned as S for compound 1 based on the obtained CD spectral data. Activity in the JB6 cell transformation assay was found for pomolic acid 3-acetate (4). All isolates obtained were evaluated in a cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibition assay.
Keywords: Arbutus unedo; Sterols; Pentacyclic triterpenes; 7β-Hydroxystigmast-4-en-3-one; Pomolic acid 3-acetate; JB6 cell transformation assay; Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition assay
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