Abstract:
Fifteen alkaloid compounds were isolated from the 70% aqueous alcohol extract of
Stephania tetrandra S. Moore by silica gel, reversed phase silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography and semi-preparative high performance liquid chromatography. They were identified as tetrandraside A (
1), (
Z)-
N-formyl-nornuciferin (
2), (
E)-
N-formyl-nornuciferin (
3), salutaridine (
4), salutaridine
N-oxide (
5), (
E)-3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-
N-2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethyl-2 propenamide (
6), dauriporphine (
7), sinomenine (
8), liriodenine (
9),
α-magnoflorine (
10), (1
S)-4'-
β-glucosylcoclaurine (
11), tetrandrine (
12), fangchinoline (
13), tetrandrine 2'-
β-oxide (
14), and tetrandrine 2'-
α-oxide (
15), respectively, by MS, NMR and single crystal diffraction. Among them, compound
1 is a new alkaloid glycoside. Compounds
2-
11 were obtained from this plant for the first time. These compounds showed obvious cytotoxic activity against drug-resistant lung cancer cell line H1299, and compound
9 had the best activity, with an IC
50 of 5.38 μmol·L
-1.