Abstract:
Seven cucurbitane-type triterpenoids were isolated from the ethanol extract of the tubers of
Hemsleya dolichocarpa, with a combination of various chromatographic approaches, including silica gel, Sephadex LH-20, Semi-HPLC and so on. On the basis of spectroscopic data analysis, they were identified as 3
β,11
α,26,27-tetrahydroxycucurbita-5,24(
E)-diene-3,26-glucosides (
1), scandenogenin D (
2), jinfushanencin F (
3), scandenoside R3 (
4), scandenoside R
1 (
5), scandenogenin A (
6), scandenoside R
2 (
7). Among them, compound
1 is a new triterpenoid, compound
2 showed remarkable activity against human cancer cell line HeLa with IC
50 value of 6.78 μmol·L
-1.