Junzhi Pan , Guohao Hu , Feijing Lv , Zhongyang Shi , Wuming Dong , Yu Qi , Chaojie Wang , Haibing Tong , Fangjian Huang , Pengcheng Yan
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Abstract
A previously undescribed C14-norsesquiterpenoid aldehyde with a hexahydrobenzofuran scaffold, sargafusal (1), was isolated from an EtOAc-soluble extract of the edible brown alga Sargassum fusiforme, together with three known norisoprenoids (2–4). The chemical structure of sargafusal (1) was established by extensive spectroscopic analyses, including 1D and 2D NMR, ECD and DFT-calculated ECD, and HR-ESI-MS data. Sargafusal (1) represents the first C14-norsesquiterpenoid aldehyde from the family Sargassaceae. Compounds 1, 3, and 4 showed potent antioxidant neuroprotective effects against H2O2-induced oxidative damage in neuron-like PC12 cells. This study provides new insight into the drug discovery efforts on the promising neuroprotective lead compounds from marine algae resource.
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Phytochemistry Letters invites rapid communications on all aspects of natural product research including:
• Structural elucidation of natural products
• Analytical evaluation of herbal medicines
• Clinical efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines
• Natural product biosynthesis
• Natural product synthesis and chemical modification
• Natural product metabolism
• Chemical ecology
• Biotechnology
• Bioassay-guided isolation
• Pharmacognosy
• Pharmacology of natural products
• Metabolomics
• Ethnobotany and traditional usage
• Genetics of natural products
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