Indoline alkaloids from Tabernaemontana contorta with cancer chemopreventive activity.

Authors :: Ndongo JT
Mbing JN
Tala MF
Monteillier A
Pegnyemb DE
Cuendet M
Laatsch H
Source :: Phytochemistry [Phytochemistry] 2017 Dec; Vol. 144, pp. 189-196. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Sep 23.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Two bisindoline alkaloids, contortarine A, 16-epi-pleiomutinine and a reaction product of pleiomutinine, namely N <superscript>4</superscript> -chloromethyl-pleiomutinine, were isolated from the roots of Tabernaemontana contorta Stapf. together with five known compounds: pleiomutinine, 1-carbomethoxy-β-carboline, strictosidine lactam, pleiocarpamine, and pleiocarpine. The structures and relative configuration of these alkaloids were determined by extensive 1D and 2D NMR, and MS measurements. The absolute configuration of these compounds was determined by comparison of experimental and calculated ECD spectra. Among the isolated compounds, contortarine A, 1-carbomethoxy-β-carboline and strictosidine lactam presented cancer chemopreventive properties through either quinone reductase (QR) induction with C <subscript>D</subscript> values of 16.0 ± 2.5, 30.2 ± 6.1 and 23.1 ± 4.6 μM, respectively, while pleiomutinine and 16-epi-pleiomutinine displayed the inhibition of TNF-α induced NF-κB activity with IC <subscript>50</subscript> at 11.7 ± 2.6 and 3.4 ± 1.1 μM, respectively.<br /> (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

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