Abstract:
Twenty one flavonoid glycosides were isolated and purified from
n-butanol portion of the water extract of
A. annua by various chromatographic techniques such as HP-20 macroporous adsorption resin, silica gel, ODS, Sephadex LH-20 gel column chromatography and preparative high performance liquid chromatography. Their structures were identified by analysis of physicochemical properties and spectral data, and determined as axillarin-7-
O-
β-
D-xylopyranosyl-(1→6)-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
1), orientin (
2), apigenin-6-
C-
β-
D-glucopyranosyl-8-
C-
β-
L-arabinopyranoside (
3), apigenin-6-
C-
β-
D-galactopyranosyl-8-
C-
β-
L-arabinopyranoside (
4), apigenin-6-
C-
β-
L-arabinopyranosyl-8-
C-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
5), apigenin-6-
C-
α-
L-arabinofuranosyl-8-
C-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
6), quercetin-3-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
7), apigenin-6-
C-
α-
L-arabinopyranosyl-8-
C-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
8), vicenin-2 (
9), patuletin-7-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
10), luteolin-6-
C-glucopyranoside (
11), vitexin (
12), kaempferol-3-
O-
β-galactopyranosyl-(1→2)-
β-glucopyranoside (
13), quercetin-7-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
14), patuletin-3-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
15), 7-
O-methyl-quercetagetin-6-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
16), quercetin-3-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
17), nepitrin (
18), rutin (
19), kaempferol-3-
O-
β-sophoroside (
20), and patuletin-3-
O-rutinoside (
21). Compound
1 is a new compound, compounds
2,
4,
6,
7,
10,
11,
13,
15,
16,
18,
20 and
21 are isolated from
A. annua for the first time. In the anti-inflammatory assay, compound
1 inhibited the release of IL-6 from LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells to significantly degrees with the high (100 μmol·L
-1), medium (50 μmol·L
-1), low (25 μmol·L
-1) concentration.