Cheng Zhi-Hong, Yu Bo-Yang, Cordell Geoffrey A, Qiu Sheng-Xiang
Department of Complex Prescription of TCM, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210038, People 's Republic of China.
Org Lett. 2004 Sep 2;6(18):3163-5. doi: 10.1021/ol048787b.
[reaction: see text] Quinovic acid glycosides were microbially deglycosylated by a Nocardia sp. to their aglycon quinovic acid and its biogenetic counterpart, cincholic acid (3), via an unprecedented carbon skeleton rearrangement involving a methyl group migration. The structures of the metabolites were established by ESI-LC/MS and 2D-NMR techniques.