51. Secondary metabolites from Astragalus karjaginii BORISS and the evaluation of their effects on cytokine release and hemolysis.
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Aslanipour, Behnaz, Gülcemal, Derya, Nalbantsoy, Ayşe, Yusufoglu, Hasan, and Bedir, Erdal
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ALTERNATIVE medicine , *BIOLOGICAL models , *BLOOD , *PHYSICAL & theoretical chemistry , *CYTOKINES , *HEMOLYSIS & hemolysins , *IMMUNE system , *INTERFERONS , *INTERLEUKINS , *MASS spectrometry , *MEDICINAL plants , *NUCLEAR magnetic resonance spectroscopy , *PROBABILITY theory , *PLANT extracts , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *IN vitro studies - Abstract
A new cycloartane sapogenol and a new cycloartane xyloside were isolated from Astragalus karjaginii BORISS along with thirteen known compounds. The structures of the new compounds were established as 3-oxo-6α,16β,24( S ),25-tetrahydroxycycloartane ( 1 ) and 6- O -β- d -xylopyranosyl-3β,6α,16β,24( S ),25-pentahydroxycycloartane ( 2 ) by 1D- and 2D-NMR experiments as well as ESIMS and HRMS analyses. The presence of the keto function at position 3 was reported for the first time for cyclocanthogenol sapogenin of Astragalus genus. In vitro immunomodulatory effects of the new compounds ( 1 and 2 ) along with the n -BuOH and MeOH extracts of A . karjaginii at two different doses (3 and 6 μg) were tested on human whole blood for in vitro cytokine release (IL-2, IL-17A and IFN-γ) and hemolytic activities. The results confirmed that compound 2 , a monodesmosidic saponin, had the strongest effect on the induction of both IL-2 (6 μg, 6345.41 ± 0.12 pg/mL (× 5), P < 0.001) and a slight effect upon IL-17A (3 μg, 5217.85 ± 0.72 pg/mL, P < 0.05) cytokines compared to the other test compounds and positive controls (AST VII: Astragaloside VII; and QS-21: Quillaja saponin 21). All tested extracts and molecules also induced release of IFN-γ remarkably ranging between 5031.95 ± 0.05 pg/mL, P < 0.001 for MeOH extract (6 μg) and 5877.08 ± 0.06 pg/mL, P < 0.001 for compound 1 (6 μg) compared to QS-21 (6 μg, 5924.87 ± 0.1 pg/mL, P < 0.001). Administration of AST VII and other test compounds did not cause any hemolytic activity, whereas QS-21 resulted a noteworthy hemolysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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