Pterocaryquinone, a novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative, was isolated from Pterocarya tonkinesis and its structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Pterocaryquinone is a new dimeric 1,4-naphthoquinone derivati...Pterocaryquinone, a novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative, was isolated from Pterocarya tonkinesis and its structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Pterocaryquinone is a new dimeric 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative having a pentacyclic skeleton with two five-membered carbon rings, which provided a novel structural skeleton for 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives and showed apoptosis-inducing activity toward mouse cancer tsFT210 cells.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars （No. 39825126）, the 973-project from Ministry of Science and Technology （No. 1998051113）, and the Fund for Cheung Kong Scholar from the Cheung Kong Scholars Program of Minis- try of Education of China.Acknowledgments We thank Prof. Q. Sun and Mrs. G. Qu, both of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, China, for their contributions on the collection and identification of the plant materials. Dr. H. 0sada, head of the Antibiotics Laboratory, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Re- search （RIKEN）, Japan, kindly provided the tsFT210 cell line.
文摘Pterocaryquinone, a novel 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative, was isolated from Pterocarya tonkinesis and its structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods. Pterocaryquinone is a new dimeric 1,4-naphthoquinone derivative having a pentacyclic skeleton with two five-membered carbon rings, which provided a novel structural skeleton for 1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives and showed apoptosis-inducing activity toward mouse cancer tsFT210 cells.
