Cytotoxic dolabellane diterpenes from the Formosan soft coral Clavularia inflata

J Nat Prod. 2001 Aug;64(8):1028-31. doi: 10.1021/np010106n.

Abstract

Six new cytotoxic dolabellane diterpenes, (1R,12R)-dolabella-4(16),7,10-triene-3,13-dione (1), (1R*,7R*,8S*,12R*)-dolabella-4(16),10-diene-7,8-epoxy- 3,13-dione (2), (1R*,10R*,11S*,12R*)-dolabella-4(16),7-diene-10,11-epoxy-3,13-dione (3), (1R)-dolabella-4(16),7,11(12)-triene-3,13-dione (4), (1R*,3R*)-3-hydroxydolabella-4(16),7,11(12)-triene-3,13-dione (5), and (1R*,7R*)-7-hydroperoxydolabella-4(16),8(17),11(12)-triene-3,13-dione (6), have been isolated from the Formosan soft coral Clavularia inflata. The structures of compounds 1-6 were determined by 1D and 2D spectral analysis, and their cytotoxicity against selected cancer cells was measured in vitro.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents / isolation & purification*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
  • Cnidaria / chemistry*
  • Diterpenes / chemistry
  • Diterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Diterpenes / pharmacology
  • Humans
  • Leukemia P388
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Mice
  • Molecular Structure
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Taiwan
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / drug effects

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Diterpenes
  • dolabellane