Abstract:
Eleven compounds were isolated from the twigs and leaves of
Xylopia vielana Pierre by various chromatographic techniques such as silica gel, ODS and the semi-preparative HPLC. Their chemical structures were identified by HR-ESI-MS, NMR, ECD and other spectroscopic methods as vielana A (
1), vielana B (
2), vielana C (
3), 10-oxo-isodauc-3-en-15-al (
4), 1
α-hydroxyisodauc-4-en-15-al (
5), mokko lactone (
6), 11
β,13-dihydrocostunolide (
7), eurylosesquiterpenol E (
8),
epi-
α-cadinol (
9), mustakone (
10), 7-
epi-amiteo (
11). Among them, compounds
1-
3 were new compounds, and the rest compounds were isolated from this plant for the first time. Compounds
1 and
2 increased the transcriptional activity of the farnesoid X receptor (FXR) downstream target gene
BSEP promoter, indicating that they have potential of FXR activation.