Pyridinium alkaloid-coupled secoiridoids from the flower buds of Lonicera japonica

J Nat Prod. 2008 May;71(5):922-5. doi: 10.1021/np800040k. Epub 2008 Mar 6.

Abstract

Three pyridinium inner salt alkaloids, lonijaposides A-C (1-3), based on an unprecedented skeleton of an N-substituted nicotinic acid nucleus coupled through C-5 with C-7 of a secoiridoid, together with seven known iridoids, have been isolated from the flower buds of Lonicera japonica. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical analyses. Lonijaposide C (3) showed activity against the release of glucuronidase in rat polymorphonuclear leukocytes induced by the platelet-activating factor.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Flowers / chemistry
  • Glucuronidase / drug effects
  • Glucuronidase / metabolism
  • Iridoids / chemistry
  • Iridoids / isolation & purification*
  • Iridoids / pharmacology
  • Lonicera / chemistry*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Neutrophils / drug effects
  • Neutrophils / enzymology
  • Plants, Medicinal / chemistry*
  • Platelet Activating Factor / pharmacology
  • Pyridinium Compounds / chemistry
  • Pyridinium Compounds / isolation & purification*
  • Pyridinium Compounds / pharmacology
  • Rats

Substances

  • Iridoids
  • Platelet Activating Factor
  • Pyridinium Compounds
  • lonijaposide A
  • lonijaposide B
  • lonijaposide C
  • Glucuronidase