{"title":"Isolation and identification of diverse steroids as <i>Escherichia coli β</i>-glucuronidase inhibitors from the Submerge-cultured mycelia of <i>Hirsutella sinensis</i>.","authors":"Youmin Ying, Xiaoxiao Chen, Ling Li, Jianwei Wang, Yun Zhang, Wei Mao, Weiguang Shan, Sha Xu","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2571857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2571857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ethanol extract of the submerge-cultured mycelia of <i>Hirsutella sinensis</i> (SCMHS) inhibited the <i>Escherichia coli β</i>-glucuronidase (EcGUS) <i>in vitro</i>. In-depth chemical investigation furnished 26 steroids, including a new compound hirsusterol A (<b>1</b>) featuring a rare 14,15-<i>seco</i> steroidal moiety and 25 known compounds with varied chemical diversity. The plausible biosynthetic pathway for hirsusterol A (<b>1</b>) was proposed. Except for ergosterol (<b>22</b>) and ergosterol peroxide (<b>23</b>), all the other compounds have never been obtained from <i>H. sinensis</i> previously. Compounds <b>8</b> and <b>23</b> were found to be potent uncompetitive inhibitors of EcGUS. This is the first report of these two steroids as EcGUS inhibitors. The findings of this study preliminary clarified the active ingredient underlying the EcGUS inhibition activity of SMCHS and provided potential drug leads for the development of new EcGUS inhibitors.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145275365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muzaffar Kayumov, Fotima A Sobirova, Okhunjon Khasanov, Nurkhodja Mukhamedov, Akmal M Asrorov, Sharafitdin Mirzaakhmedov
{"title":"Alantolactone: structural enhancements and therapeutic insights for cancer and inflammation.","authors":"Muzaffar Kayumov, Fotima A Sobirova, Okhunjon Khasanov, Nurkhodja Mukhamedov, Akmal M Asrorov, Sharafitdin Mirzaakhmedov","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2571848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2571848","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alantolactone (ATL) is a bioactive sesquiterpene lactone derived from medicinal plants that exhibits numerous biological activities, especially its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. The review examines the current evidence on ATL's bioactivity and details how ATL functions across various cancer cell lines (breast, lung, gastric, pancreatic, bone and liver cancers) and inflammation processes. The clinical application of ATL faces limitations due to its inadequate solubility in water and non-selectively binding to non-target proteins. Therefore, we summarised existing structural transformation methods, including acid-catalyzed, oxidative, reductive reactions, cycloaddition, rearrangement of lactone ring, Aza-Michael, cross-coupling and click reactions that might further promote to overcome these limitations. This work presents ATL as an effective anticancer natural product and reviews the last decade of anti-tumour and inflammatory activities, with the mechanism of actions and gives the main points of existing structural optimisation techniques which may assist the researchers to improve effectiveness while minimising negative side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145275200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new ten-numbered macrolide, diaporthsin L, from endophytic fungus <i>Diaporthe</i> sp. G-4 isolated from <i>Strobilanthes cusia</i> (Nees) Kuntze.","authors":"Jun-Yi Li, Zhen-Xian Cun, Hui-Hui Sun, Jie-Zheng Shi, Wen-Xiang Yan, Jun-Meng Xia, Dong Gan, Mao-Ru Li, Ju-Cheng Zhang, Zhong-Tao Ding","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2568950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2568950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One new ten-membered macrolide, named diaporthsin L (<b>1</b>), along with fourteen known compounds (<b>2-15</b>) were isolated from the endophytic fungus <i>Diaporthe</i> sp. G-4 which isolated from the medicinal plant <i>Strobilanthes cusia</i> (Nees) Kuntze. The structures were elucidated on the basis of their 1D and 2D NMR data, mass spectrometric data and X-ray crystallographic analysis. Compound <b>10</b> was initially isolated from metabolites of endophytic fungus, while compounds <b>6</b>, <b>9,</b> and <b>12</b> were obtained from the <i>Diaporthe</i> sp. genus for the first time. Diaporthsin L (<b>1</b>) showed weak cytotoxicity against human leukaemia cells (HL-60) with IC<sub>50</sub> value of 126.53 ± 1.13 µM.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145275316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inulevs-A, a new sesquiterpene lactone from the leaves of <i>Inula racemosa</i> Hook. f.\"","authors":"Komal, Chandan Thappa, Kritika Sharma, Safeya Begum, Farina Sultan, Manu Khajuria, Yedukondalu Nalli","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569805","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569805","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Himalayan herb <i>Inula racemosa</i> has long been valued for its therapeutic benefits, which are largely attributed to the bioactive compounds present in its roots. However, the chemical and medicinal potential of its leaves has remained largely unexplored. This study addresses this gap by isolating one new (<b>2</b>) and ten known (<b>1</b>, <b>3-11</b>) sesquiterpene lactones from leaves of <i>Inula racemosa</i>. Inulevs-A (<b>2</b>) was identified as the 11,13-dihydro analogue of the leaf major metabolite 4,5-epoxy-11(13)-guaien-12,8-olide (<b>1</b>) through 1D/2D NMR and mass data. The biological activity of <b>1</b> and <b>2</b> are analysed for regulating GLUT4 expression, a key protein involved in insulin-dependent glucose uptake.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145275247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An efficient stereochemical elucidation of the aromatic polyketide NFAT-133 using the novel NOE quantification combined with <i><sup>n</sup>J</i> <sub>H-H</sub> and <i><sup>n</sup>J</i> <sub>C-H</sub> coupling constants.","authors":"Kazuo Furihata, Yusuke Ogura, Hirosato Takikawa, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yoko Suzuki, Takashi Fujimoto, Mitsuru Tashiro","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2570506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2570506","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>NFAT-133, which was isolated from <i>Streptomyces</i> sp., is an immunosuppressive and antidiabetic aromatic polyketide containing three contiguous stereocenters. Although its absolute configuration was first proposed mainly based on NMR data, the later study employing the total synthesis of the proposed structure and its epimer resulted in the stereochemical revision of NFAT-133. The difficulty of determining relative configuration in polyketides arises from spin systems consisting of a methine group directly bonded to a methyl group (e.g. -CH(OH)-CH(CH<sub>3</sub>)-CH(OH)-). In this case, the stereochemical analysis of the aforementioned chain structure is generally hard due to the limited information of <i><sup>n</sup>J</i><sub>C-H</sub> and <i><sup>n</sup>J</i><sub>H-H</sub>. In an aim of developing a reliable analytical method based on NMR spectroscopy, we applied a novel NOE quantification in a 1D double pulsed field gradient spin echo (DPFGSE)-NOESY spectra. The combinational analysis of the proposed NOE quantification with <i><sup>n</sup>J</i><sub>C-H</sub> and <i><sup>n</sup>J</i><sub>H-H</sub> provided an accurate determination of the relative configurations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Santa Maria Del Rosário Orrillo Lindo, Daniela Osorio, Karina Bispo-Dos-Santos, Paulo Chanel Deodato Freitas, Juliano Lemos Bicas, Gislaine Ricci Leonardi
{"title":"Comparing conventional and sustainable solvents for plant-based cosmetic bioactives: from extraction to application.","authors":"Santa Maria Del Rosário Orrillo Lindo, Daniela Osorio, Karina Bispo-Dos-Santos, Paulo Chanel Deodato Freitas, Juliano Lemos Bicas, Gislaine Ricci Leonardi","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2568954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2568954","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural cosmetics are gaining prominence in the market, making the efficient and safe extraction of bioactive compounds essential. This review, based on more than 130 articles retrieved from reliable databases, analysed the importance of selecting the safest and most efficient extracting liquid for cosmetic applications. Traditional solvents such as methanol and hexane have been used less frequently in human applications due to toxicity, which affects both use and disposal when separated from the target molecule. As an alternative, interest in green solvents, such as deep eutectic solvents (DES) and ionic liquids (ILs), is increasing. These solvents offer sustainability advantages but may also present challenges due to complexity, requiring further study. In cosmetic formulations, the multifunctionality of glycols allows their use as extraction liquids or as vehicles for resuspending dried extracts. Understanding plant composition is crucial for selecting the most suitable extraction liquid, ensuring effective isolation of bioactive compounds for cosmetic applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of phenolics in <i>Casuarina cunninghamiana</i>: extraction, quantification and antioxidant evaluation.","authors":"Nourhene Aroua, Maher Boukhris, Wissal Ayouni, Sirine Choura, Mohamed Chamkha, Ridha Ben Salem, Rigane Ghayth","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2569804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study was carried out to evaluate the phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity in the aqueous extract from leaves, stems and flowers of <i>Casuarina cunninghamiana</i> Miq. subsp. <i>Cunninghamiana</i> through ultrasound-assisted and maceration extractions from Sfax, Tunisia. The leaves exhibited the highest total phenolic and flavonoid contents. HPLC analysis identified 14 phenolic compounds across all extracts, including caffeic acid, epicatechin and verbascoside. Remarkably, catechin was present at the highest concentration in <i>C. cunninghamiana</i> flowers extracts. The antioxidant activity was assessed using the DPPH radical scavenging assay and FRAP assay. The leaves extract exhibited the strongest antioxidant activity, with an IC<b><sub>50</sub></b> value of 204.17 µg/mL in the DPPH assay and 197.5 µM BHT/g DW in the FRAP assay. These findings highlight the potential of <i>C. cunninghamiana</i> being studied for the first time in Tunisia as a natural source of bioactive compounds, with potential applications in biotechnology, pharmacology and natural product research.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L S Julião, A L Haick, M R Silva, D C N Grillo, C J Riger, T Saldanha, A C H F Sawaya, G S Siqueira, M G De Carvalho
{"title":"Biflavonoids and glucopyranoside derivatives from <i>Ouratea polygyna</i> (Ochnaceae) and their inhibition of the SARS-CoV-2 3CL<sup>Pro</sup> main protease.","authors":"L S Julião, A L Haick, M R Silva, D C N Grillo, C J Riger, T Saldanha, A C H F Sawaya, G S Siqueira, M G De Carvalho","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2570499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2570499","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Ouratea polygyna</i> is a plant endemic to Brazil whose phytochemical and/or biological properties have not yet been studied. Studies point to flavonoids and phenols as inhibitors of the proliferation of coronaviruses. Therefore, we proceeded to the identification of compounds present in the extracts of this plant and evaluated their potential for viral inhibition on SARS-CoV-2 3CL<sup>Pro</sup>. The results showed that the bioflavonoids fractions with amentoflavone and robustaflavone inhibited the viral protease at the levels of a synthetic inhibitor at all concentrations evaluated (10, 25 and 50 µM). Fractions with glucopyranoside derivatives (1-<i>O</i>-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-6-<i>O</i>-(4-hydroxybenzoyl)-<i>β</i>-D-glucopyranoside and 4-hydroxyphenyl-(6'-<i>O</i>-benzoyl)-<i>O</i>-<i>β</i>-glucopyranoside) also showed inhibition of this enzyme at all concentrations, with an increase in inhibition above the positive control when used at 50 µM concentration. These results demonstrate an important role of amentoflavone, robustaflavone, and glycopyranoside derivatives in the inhibition of viral replication and transcription.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis and modeling of natural product-inspired cyclic peptides.","authors":"Andrew M Kim, Runjie Xia, Matthew J Bertin","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569803","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569803","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cyanobacteria produce metabolites with important biological functions. Unnarmicin D, isolated from an environmental collection of <i>Trichodesmium thiebautii</i>, showed binding activity to both the μ opioid receptor (MOR) and the δ opioid receptor (DOR) while reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines in murine BV-2 microglial cells. We devised a synthetic approach replacing the fatty acid portion of unnarmicin D with a hydrophobic amino acid, which allowed for a head to tail cyclisation, with the formation of an amide bond as the final synthetic step instead of an ester. A panel of constitutional isomeric cyclized pentapeptides inspired by unnarmicin D, sharing four common amino acids, was synthesised with each synthetic step validated by <sup>1</sup>H NMR and HRESIMS and additional analysis. <i>In silico</i> modelling was used to assess the anti-inflammatory and analgesic potential, revealing key binding interactions with the MOR receptor and structure activity relationship between the lipophilic tail and the NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3).</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhao Sun, Jing Wang, Yan Liu, Jie Sun, Zhen-Xing Fang, Hai-Long Yu, Bing-You Yang, Yuan-Yuan Zhou
{"title":"Three new phenylpropanoids from <i>Atractylodes japonica</i> Koidz. ex kitam.","authors":"Zhao Sun, Jing Wang, Yan Liu, Jie Sun, Zhen-Xing Fang, Hai-Long Yu, Bing-You Yang, Yuan-Yuan Zhou","doi":"10.1080/14786419.2025.2569806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2025.2569806","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three new phenylpropanoids (<b>1-3</b>), together with eighteen known phenylpropanoids (<b>4-21</b>), were isolated from a 70% aqueous EtOH extract of the rhizomes of <i>Atractylodes japonica</i> Koidz. ex Kitam. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic techniques, including 1D, 2D NMR spectra and HR-ESI-MS. All the isolated compounds were evaluated for cytotoxicity activity by CCK-8 assay. Compounds <b>1</b>, <b>11</b> and <b>13</b> exhibited moderate activities with IC<sub>50</sub> values in the range of 34.19-48.38 μM against human cancer (BGC-823, HepG-2, HeLa) cell lines.</p>","PeriodicalId":18990,"journal":{"name":"Natural Product Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}