Medicinal flowers. XIV. New acylated oleanane-type triterpene oligoglycosides with antiallergic activity from flower buds of chinese tea plant (Camellia sinensis)

Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2007 Apr;55(4):598-605. doi: 10.1248/cpb.55.598.

Abstract

The methanolic extract from the flower buds of Chinese tea plant (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. KUNTZE) was found to inhibit release of beta-hexosaminidase from RBL-2H3 cells. From the methanolic extract, six new acylated oleanane-type triterpene oligoglycosides, floratheasaponins D-I, were isolated together with 21 known compounds including floratheasaponins A-C. The chemical structures of floratheasaponins D-I were elucidated on the basis of chemical and physicochemical evidence. The principal constituents, floratheasaponins A-F, were found to show the inhibitory activity on the release of beta-hexosaminidase from RBL-2H3 cells.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Glycosides / chemistry
  • Glycosides / isolation & purification
  • Glycosides / pharmacology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Plants, Medicinal*
  • Rats
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment
  • Tea / chemistry*
  • Triterpenes / chemistry
  • Triterpenes / isolation & purification
  • Triterpenes / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Glycosides
  • Tea
  • Triterpenes