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JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Volume 79, Issue 3, Pages 590-597Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01052
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- Regione Campania under POR Campania FESR [2007-2013-O.O.2.1]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 1127]
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Humulus lupulus (hop plant) has long been used in traditional medicine as a sedative and antimicrobial agent. More recently, attention has been devoted to the phytoestrogenic activity of the plant extracts as well as to the antiinflammatory and chemopreventive properties of the prenylated chalcones present. In this study, an Italian sample of H. lupulus cv. Cascade has been investigated and three new compounds [4-hydroxycolupulone (6), humudifucol (7) and cascadone (8)] have been purified and identified by means of NMR spectroscopy along with four known metabolites. Notably, humudifucol (7) is the first prenylated dimeric phlorotannin discovered in nature. Because structurally related phloroglucinols from natural sources were found previously to inhibit microsomal prostaglandin E-2 synthase (mPGES)-1 and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO), the isolated compounds were evaluated for their bioactivity against these pro-inflammatory target proteins. The prenylated chalcone xanthohumol inhibited both enzymes at low mu M concentrations.
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