Inhibition of tumor-promoting effects by poricoic acids G and H and other lanostane-type triterpenes and cytotoxic activity of poricoic acids A and G from Poria cocos

J Nat Prod. 2002 Apr;65(4):462-5. doi: 10.1021/np0103721.

Abstract

The structures of two novel 3,4-seco-lanostane-type triterpenes isolated from the sclerotium of Poria cocos were established to be 16alpha-hydroxy-3,4-seco-lanosta-4(28),8,24-triene-3,21-dioic acid (1; poricoic acid G) and 16alpha-hydroxy-3,4-seco-24-methyllanosta-4(28),8,24(24(1))-triene-3,21-dioic acid (2; poricoic acid H) on the basis of spectroscopic methods. These two, and eight other known compounds isolated from the sclerotium, poricoic acid B (3), poricoic acid A (4), tumulosic acid (5), dehydrotumulosic acid (6), 3-epidehydrotumulosic acid (7), polyporenic acid C (8), 25-hydroxy-3-epidehydrotumulosic acid (9), and dehydroabietic acid methyl ester (10), showed potent inhibitory effects on Epstein-Barr virus early antigen (EBV-EA) activation induced by the tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Evaluation of the cytotoxicity of compounds 1 and 4 against human cancer cell lines revealed that 1 was significantly cytotoxic to leukemia HL-60 cells [GI(50) (concentration that yields 50% growth) value 39.3 nM], although it showed only moderate cytotoxicity to the other cells. Compound 4 exhibited moderate cytotoxicity to all of the cancer cell lines tested.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / isolation & purification*
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / pharmacology
  • Brain Neoplasms
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Colonic Neoplasms
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Japan
  • Kidney Neoplasms
  • Lanosterol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Lanosterol / chemistry
  • Lanosterol / isolation & purification*
  • Lanosterol / pharmacology
  • Leukemia, Myeloid
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Melanoma
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Ovarian Neoplasms
  • Plants, Medicinal / chemistry*
  • Polyporaceae / chemistry*
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Triterpenes / chemistry
  • Triterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Triterpenes / pharmacology
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / drug effects

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Triterpenes
  • poricoic acid A
  • poricoic acid G
  • poricoic acid H
  • Lanosterol