Krempfielins Q and R, two new eunicellin-based diterpenoids from the soft coral Cladiella krempfi

Int J Mol Sci. 2014 Nov 27;15(12):21865-74. doi: 10.3390/ijms151221865.

Abstract

Two new eunicellin-based diterpenoids, krempfielins Q and R (1 and 2), and one known compound cladieunicellin K (3) have been isolated from a Formosan soft coral Cladiella krempfi. The structures of these two new metabolites were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analysis. Anti-inflammatory activity of new metabolites to inhibit the superoxide anion generation and elastase release in N-formyl-methionyl-leucyl phenylalanine/cytochalasin B (FMLP/CB)-induced human neutrophil cells and cytotoxicity of both new compounds toward five cancer cell lines were reported.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / chemistry*
  • Carbon-13 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Diterpenes / chemistry
  • Diterpenes / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Neutrophils / drug effects
  • Neutrophils / metabolism
  • Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Superoxides / metabolism

Substances

  • Diterpenes
  • eunicellin
  • krempfielin Q
  • krempfielin R
  • Superoxides