The present invention belongs to the field of medicine, and particularly relates to a (9β-H)-pimarane skeleton derivative with anti-colon cancer activity, and a preparation method and application thereof.
Colon cancer, as the third most common malignant tumor, is second only to lung cancer and gastric cancer, and an incidence rate of the colon cancer ranks third among male malignant tumors and second among female malignant tumors, wherein the incidence rate of the colon cancer is significantly increased. The colon cancer is one of the most prominent health killers in the world, which has the characteristics of high incidence rate, easy recurrence, poor prognosis and high mortality.
Main clinical treatments for the colon cancer comprise surgical resection, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, and the like. The surgical resection is mainly suitable for patients with early localized metastasis, such as a stage-I colon cancer, while stage-II and stage-III colon cancers are treated with surgery combined with the chemotherapy, and an advanced colon cancer is mainly treated with the chemotherapy. It can be seen that the chemotherapy plays an important role in the treatment of colon cancers of all stages, and has become the main treatment method of the colon cancer. 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), Oxaliplatin and Irinotecan are commonly used chemotherapy drugs in clinical treatment of the colon cancer, wherein the 5-FU, as a basic drug for the colon cancer, has been an important principal chemotherapy drug for more than 40 years, with a remarkable curative effect and a wide anti-cancer spectrum. However, the 5-FU will bring strong side effects and irreversible drug resistance to patients. In view of the strong toxic and side effects of the 5-FU and other chemotherapy drugs for the colon cancer, which affect the quality of life of patients, it is urgent to study and find a new anti-cancer drug with a good curative effect and low toxic and side effects. Therefore, it is of great significance to separate and screen non-toxic or low-toxic natural anti-tumor effective components from plants.
Icacina oliviformis (Poir.) J. Raynal is a perennial drought-resistant shrub of Icacina of Icacinaceae, and mainly distributed in central and western Africa. A tuber of I. oliviformis is rich in starch, and may also be used as food to satisfy people's hunger during famine. In addition, this plant also has a rich medicinal value, and local people use the tuber as a medicinal material to treat various diseases, such as poisoning, constipation and malaria; and an alcohol-soaked object of the tuber is also used by local people as a first-aid medicine to deal with some emergencies such as food poisoning. Modern pharmacological research shows that the I. oliviformis has many activities, such as anti-tumor, anti-convulsion, sedation, analgesia, hypoglycemia, bacteriostasis and seed germination inhibition. At present, researches on the I. oliviformis mostly focus on the tuber, and there is still the absence of research on a chemical composition of leaves. In addition, compared with the tuber, the leaves have a strong regeneration ability and rich sources, and are an environment-friendly natural resource.
One object of the present invention is to deeply study active components of leaves of I. oliviformis, and to separate two novel 3,4-seco-17-nor-pimarane skeleton compounds from dry leaves of the plant I. oliviformis, which are named secoicacinlivitholide F (1) and secoicacinlivitholide G (2). Another object of the present invention is to screen out a preparation method of such type of novel skeleton compounds.
It is found from activity evaluation of the present invention that the compounds secoicacinlivitholide F and secoicacinlivitholide G have certain activity of inhibiting the proliferation of colon cancer cells, especially the compound secoicacinlivitholide G has remarkable anti-proliferation effects on two colon cancer cell lines HT-29 and SW620, and the effects are both stronger than those of a positive drug 5-fluorouracil. In addition, the inhibiting effect of the compound secoicacinlivitholide G on the colon cancer cell line HT-29 is about three times that of the positive drug 5-FU, so that the compound may be used for preparing an anti-colon cancer drug or used as a lead compound in the development of the anti-colon cancer drug.
The present invention provides the following technical solution: a (9β-H)-pimarane skeleton derivative with anti-colon cancer activity comprises a compound with the following general structural formula:
wherein, R1 and R2 are both hydrogen, acyl, glycosyl, alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkylaryl, aryl, arylalkyl, arylalkenyl, arylalkynyl, or heterocyclyl.
As a preferred solution, according to the (9β-H)-pimarane skeleton derivative above, R1 and R2 are hydrogen or alkyl.
As a more preferred solution, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, and R2 is hydrogen, which are selected from the following compound:
A preparation method of the novel two (9β-H)-pimarane diterpenoid skeleton compounds of the present invention comprises the following steps of:
As a preferred solution, the preparation method of the present invention comprises the following steps of:
A proliferation inhibition experiment is carried out on HT-29 colon cancer cells as an activity experiment, a clinical 5-FU drug is selected as a positive control drug, and an IC50 (median inhibition concentration) value of the HT-29 colon cancer cells of the compound is tested by an MTT method, which finally proves that the above two compounds have good anti-colon cancer effects. An application of the above compound in preparing an anti-colon cancer drug is provided.
The present invention finds the two novel 3,4-seco-17-nor-pimarane skeleton compounds secoicacinlivitholide F and secoicacinlivitholide G from the West African plant I. oliviformis, and provides an extraction and separation technology, a structural identification method and an application in anti-proliferation of colon cancer cells for the compounds.
Hedera ODS preparative chromatographic column (10 nm, 5 μm, 10 mm×250 mm); Waters ACQUITY UPLC BEH C18 (2.1 mm×100 mm, 1.7 μm) chromatographic column; MCI GEL (CHP20, 75 μm to 150 μm), Sephadex LH-20 gel, and column chromatography silica gel (200 meshes to 300 meshes); chromatographic acetonitrile, methanol and formic acid purchased from Merck Company of America; and analytical petroleum ether and ethyl acetate purchased from Nanjing Wanqing Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd.
A preparation method of a compound was implemented by the following steps:
The compound 1 was white powder, [α]D20−10.0 (c 0.01, MeOH), and combined with 13C
NMR data and a quasi-molecular ion peak m/z 363.1426 ([M+H]+, a calculated value of C19H23O7+ was 363.1444) given by a high-resolution mass spectrum (HRESIMS), a molecular formula of the compound could be deduced to be C19H22O7, with an unsaturation degree of 9. A hydrogen spectrum of the compound 1 (Table 1) showed a signal with 1 methyl proton δH (1.29, d, CH3-18) and a signal with 2 alkene protons δH (6.67, d, H-15; 7.54, d, H-16). A 13C NMR spectrum and a DEPT spectrum showed that the compound had a signal with 19 carbons, comprising 1 methyl carbon, 5 methylene carbons (including 1 oxygen-bond methylene), 7 methine carbons (including 1 oxygen-bond methine), 3 quaternary carbons (including 1 oxy-generated tertiary carbon) and 3 carbonyl carbons. According to analysis of 1H and 13C NMR data of the compound 1, the compound 1 had 2 methylenes δC (30.7, C-1; 26.8, C-2), 1 carboxyl δC (177.0, C-3), 2 methines δC (38.7, C-4; 46.9, C-5) and 1 quaternary carbon δC (50.8, C-10). The above evidence showed that, in the compound 1, rupture and ring-opening occurred between C-3 and C-4. In addition, an HMBC spectrogram showed that H2-20 was related to C-6 (δC 77.6), which indicated the existence of 6,20-epoxy bridge. A plane structure of the compound 1 was further confirmed by 1H-1H COSY, HSQC and HMBC spectra.
A relative configuration of the compound 1 was determined by analyzing an NOESY spectrum (
The compound 2 was white powder, [α]D20−20.0 (c 0.02, MeOH), and combined with 13C NMR data and a quasi-molecular ion peak m/z 377.1607 ([M+H]+, a calculated value of C20H25O7+ was 377.1600) given by a high-resolution mass spectrum (HRESIMS), a molecular formula of the compound could be deduced to be C20H24O7, with an unsaturation degree of 9. 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectra of the compounds 2 and 1 were compared, and it was found that the compound 2 had one more methoxyl than the compound 1. The HMBC spectrum showed that OCH3 (δH 3.64, δC 52.2) was related to C-3 (δC 175.2), which indicated that the methoxyl was linked with the C-3. Therefore, the compound 2 could be determined to be a 3-methoxyl derivative of the compound 1. A plane structure of the compound 2 was further confirmed by 1H-1H COSY, HSQC and HMBC spectra, and the compound was named secoicacinlivitholide G. A relative configuration of the compound 2 was the same as that of the compound 1.
1H and 13C NMR data of compounds 1
An anti-colon cancer activity test research of the present invention was carried out by the following steps.
Colon cancer cell lines HT-29 and SW620 (cell bank of Chinese Academy of Sciences) were cultured in a DMEM culture solution containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Gibco Company of America) at 37° C. under 5% CO2. During subculturing, a dish of tumor cells was taken out first, the culture solution was removed, and 3 mL of PBS was added to wash the cells twice; 1 mL of trypsin was added for digestion, 1 mL of culture solution was added after 2 minutes to stop the digestion, and the mixture was centrifuged at 1000 r/min and room temperature for 5 minutes; and a supernatant was removed, 1 mL of DMEM culture medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum was added, and the mixture was resuspended to obtain a cell suspension.
Proper amounts of the compounds 1 and 2 prepared in the above Embodiment 1 were weighed and dissolved in DMSO, so that mother solutions had a final concentration of 4 mM and were stored in a refrigerator at 4 C. Before the experiment, the mother solutions were diluted with a DMEM culture medium, so as to make drugs have a concentration of 20 μM and ensure that the DMSO had a final concentration lower than 0.1%. Different volumes of DMEM culture media were added to dilute the compounds into different concentrations. Meanwhile, a DMEM culture medium containing 0.1% DMSO was used as a negative control.
Tumor cells were suspended in a culture medium, inoculated into a 96-well plate (100 μL/well) by a cell density of 6×103, and cultured at 37° C. under 5% CO2 for 24 hours. In a logarithmic growth period of the tumor cell lines, different concentrations of compounds were added to culture the cells at 37° C. under 5% CO2 for 24 hours.
After 24 hours of interaction between the drugs and the tumor cells, 20 μL of MTT solution (5 mg/mL) was added into each well to incubate the cells in a sterile incubator for 3 hours. A supernatant was removed completely, and 150 μL of DMSO was added into each well to react on a shaker for 30 minutes, so as to dissolve bluish violet formazan crystals. An OD value was determined at a wavelength of 570 nm with a microplate reader. IC50 (median inhibitory concentration) values of the compounds were calculated by GraphPad Prism 8 software, and 5-FU was used as a positive control.
Experimental results referred to Table 2:
Experimental conclusion: it is found from the anti-colon cancer cell activity evaluation of the compounds 1 and 2 that the compound 2 has remarkable anti-proliferation effects on two colon cancer cell lines HT-29 and SW620, and the effects are both stronger than those of the positive drug 5-FU, The inhibiting effect of the compound 2 on the colon cancer cell line HT-29 is about three times that of the positive drug 5-FU, so that the compound has the potential to develop a new anti-colon cancer drug.
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202310579790.2 | May 2023 | CN | national |
This application is the U.S. Continuing application of International Application No. PCT/CN2024/081800 filed on 15 Mar. 2024 which designated the U.S. and claims priority to Chinese Application No. CN202310579790.2 filed on 22 May 2023, the entire contents of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
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Parent | PCT/CN2024/081800 | Mar 2024 | WO |
Child | 18738089 | US |