Glycolipids from the formosan soft coral Lobophytum crassum

Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2007 Dec;55(12):1720-3. doi: 10.1248/cpb.55.1720.

Abstract

Three glycolipids (1--3), possessing a sugar moiety at C-2 of glycerol ether, have been isolated from the Formosan soft coral Lobophytum crassum. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods, particularly in 1D- and 2D-NMR experiments. The absolute configurations on the sugar portion and lipid aglycon of 1--3 were determined by methanolysis, chemical transformation and the application of Mosher's method on 1 and 3. Compounds 1--3 exhibited weak cytotoxic activities.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / chemistry*
  • Antineoplastic Agents / chemistry
  • Antineoplastic Agents / isolation & purification
  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatography, Thin Layer
  • Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
  • Glycolipids / chemistry*
  • Glycolipids / isolation & purification
  • Glycolipids / pharmacology
  • Humans
  • Hydrolysis
  • Indicators and Reagents
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Taiwan

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Glycolipids
  • Indicators and Reagents