Abstract:
One new flavonoids named as notabilisin K (
1), together with four known compounds, morusin (
2), mulberrofuran A (
3), neocyclomorusin (
4) and mornigrol F (
5) are separated from 95% ethanol extracts of the twigs of
Morus notabilis. Compounds
2-
5 are separated from this plant for the first time. Notabilisin I, notabilisin J exhibits certain effect against cells of HCT-116, HepG2 and A2780 with IC
50 values ranging from 1.47 μmol·L
-1 to 5.46 μmol·L
-1. Morusin exhibits strong effect against five kinds of human cancer cells (BGC823, A2780, HCT-116, HepG2 and NCI-H1650) with IC
50 values ranging from 0.74 μmol·L
-1 to 1.58 μmol·L
-1.