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BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 24, Pages 4445-4449Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2003.09.019
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The methanolic extract and its alkaloid fraction from the rhizomes of Nuphar pumilum inhibited invasion of 1316 melanoma cells across collagen-coated filters in vitro. Dimeric sesquiterpene thioalkaloids with the 6-hydroxyl group, 6-hydroxy-thiobinupharidine, 6,6'-dihydroxythiobinupharidine, and 6-hydroxythionuphlutine B, showed potent activity with IC50 values of 0.029, 0.087, and 0.36 muM, respectively, but dimeric sesquiterpene thioalkaloids lacking the 6-hydroxyl group (thiobinupharidine, neothiobinupharidine, syn-thiobinupharidine sulfoxide, thionuphultine B beta-sulfoxide, and neothiobinupharidine beta-sulfoxide) and monomeric sesquiterpene alkaloids (nupharidine, deoxynupharidine, 7-epideoxynupharidine, and nupharolutine) showed weak activity. The alkaloid fraction (20 mg/kg/d, po) and the principal dimeric sesquiterpene thioalkaloid 6-hydroxythiobinupharidine (5 mg/kg/d, po) significantly inhibited lung tumor formation by more than 90% 10 days after injection of B16 melanoma cells in mice. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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