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  3. Withanolides from Aeroponically Grown Physalis peruviana and Their Selective Cytotoxicity to Prostate Cancer and Renal Carcinoma Cells

Withanolides from Aeroponically Grown Physalis peruviana and Their Selective Cytotoxicity to Prostate Cancer and Renal Carcinoma Cells

  • J Nat Prod. 2017 Jul 28;80(7):1981-1991. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b01129.
Ya-Ming Xu 1,  E M Kithsiri Wijeratne 1,  Ashley L Babyak 2,  Hanna R Marks 2,  Alan D Brooks 2,  Poonam Tewary 2,  Li-Jiang Xuan 3,  Wen-Qiong Wang 3,  Thomas J Sayers 2,  A A Leslie Gunatilaka 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Natural Products Center, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona , 250 E. Valencia Road, Tucson, Arizona 85706, United States.
  • 2 Basic Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, and Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute , Frederick, Maryland 21702, United States.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 501 Haike Road, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.
PMID: 28617598 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b01129
Abstract

Investigation of aeroponically grown Physalis peruviana resulted in the isolation of 11 new withanolides, including perulactones I-L (1-4), 17-deoxy-23β-hydroxywithanolide E (5), 23β-hydroxywithanolide E (6), 4-deoxyphyperunolide A (7), 7β-hydroxywithanolide F (8), 7β-hydroxy-17-epi-withanolide K (9), 24,25-dihydro-23β,28-dihydroxywithanolide G (10), and 24,25-dihydrowithanolide E (11), together with 14 known withanolides (12-25). The structures of 1-11 were elucidated by the analysis of their spectroscopic data, and 12-25 were identified by comparison of their spectroscopic data with those reported. All withanolides were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity against a panel of tumor cell lines including LNCaP (androgen-sensitive human prostate adenocarcinoma), 22Rv1 (androgen-resistant human prostate adenocarcinoma), ACHN (human renal adenocarcinoma), M14 (human melanoma), SK-MEL-28 (human melanoma), and normal human foreskin fibroblast cells. Of these, the 17β-hydroxywithanolides (17-BHWs) 6, 8, 9, 11-13, 15, and 19-22 showed selective cytotoxic activity against the two prostate Cancer cell lines LNCaP and 22Rv1, whereas 13 and 20 exhibited selective toxicity for the ACHN renal carcinoma cell line. These cytotoxicity data provide additional structure-activity relationship information for the 17-BHWs.

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