Abstract:
This study was designed to study the chemical constituents from bulbil of
Dioscorea opposite Thunb.. Four compounds were isolated by silica gel column chromatography. On the basis of physic-chemical characters and spectroscopic data analysis, these compounds were identified as lyzalkaloid (3,4-dihydro-6-hydroxy-4-methyl-6
H-pyrido6,5-
bindol-5(1
H)-one) (
1), anoectochine (
2), ginsenine (
3), and 2-hydroxy-3-(1
H-indol-3-yl) propanoic acid methyl ester (
4). Compound
1 is a new indole alkaloid, named as lyzalkaloid. Compounds
2-
4 were isolated from this plant for the first time. The cytotoxic activities were assessed by MTT assay. All compounds exhibited the cytotoxic activity against HepG2 and MDA-231 with IC
50 values of over 100 μmol·L
-1, respectively. All compounds show no significant cytotoxic activities against HepG2, MDA-231 cancer cell.