Medicinal flowers. XXIV. Chemical structures and hepatoprotective effects of constituents from flowers of Hedychium coronarium

Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2008 Dec;56(12):1704-9. doi: 10.1248/cpb.56.1704.

Abstract

The 80% aqueous acetone extract from the flowers of Hedychium coronarium was found to show a protective effect on D-galactosamine-induced cytotoxicity in primary cultured mouse hepatocytes. On the other hand, two new labdane-type diterpene glycosides, coronalactosides I (1) and II (2), and a new labdane-type trinorditerpene, coronadiene (3), were isolated together with 8 known compounds from the extracts, which were obtained with chloroform and 80% aqueous acetone from the flowers of H. coronarium. The structures of new constituents were elucidated on the basis of chemical and physicochemical evidence. In addition, the principal constituents, coronaririn C and 15-hydroxylabda-8(17),11,13-trien-16,15-olide, displayed hepatoprotective effects, which were stronger than that of the hepatoprotective agent, silybin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetone
  • Animals
  • Cell Survival / drug effects
  • Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / prevention & control*
  • Diterpenes / chemistry*
  • Diterpenes / isolation & purification*
  • Flowers / chemistry
  • Hepatocytes / drug effects
  • Hydrolysis
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Multienzyme Complexes / chemistry
  • Plant Extracts / chemistry
  • Plants, Medicinal / chemistry*
  • Protective Agents / isolation & purification
  • Protective Agents / pharmacology*
  • Silybin
  • Silymarin / pharmacology
  • Solvents
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
  • Spectrophotometry, Infrared
  • Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
  • Zingiberaceae / chemistry*
  • beta-Glucosidase / chemistry

Substances

  • Diterpenes
  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Plant Extracts
  • Protective Agents
  • Silymarin
  • Solvents
  • coronadiene
  • coronalactoside I
  • coronalactoside II
  • Acetone
  • Silybin
  • naringinase
  • beta-Glucosidase