Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai 90112, Songkhla, Thailand.
Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Dortmund, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.
Molecules. 2022 Jan 19;27(3):639. doi: 10.3390/molecules27030639.
Wall. (Convolvulaceae) is wildly distributed in Asia. Its stem is used as the component in traditional Thai recipes for treatments of muscle rigidity, skin disorder, dysentery, and hypoglycemia. However, the chemical constituents and biological activities of have not been reported. From a screening assay, stem crude extract showed the potent effect on alpha-glucosidase inhibition at 2 mg/mL as 96.09%. The bioassay-guiding isolation led to 5 compounds that were identified by spectroscopic techniques as scopoletin (), syringic acid (), methyl 3-methyl-2-butenoate (), feruloyltyramine (), and coumaroyltyramine (). Compounds , , and exhibited an IC of 110.97, 29.87, and 0.92 µg/mL, respectively, while the IC of positive standard, acarbose was 272.72 µg/mL. Kinetic study showed that compound performed as the mixed-type inhibition mechanism, whereas compounds and displayed the uncompetitive inhibition mechanism. The docking study provided the molecular understanding of isolated aromatic compounds (, , and ) to alpha-glucosidase. Hence, this study would be the first report of isolated compounds and their anti-alpha-glucosidase activity with the mechanism of action from . Thus, these active compounds will be further studied to be the lead compounds among natural antidiabetic drugs.
墙藤(旋花科)广泛分布于亚洲。其茎被用于传统泰国食谱中,用于治疗肌肉僵硬、皮肤疾病、痢疾和低血糖。然而,尚未报道其化学成分和生物活性。从筛选实验来看,墙藤茎粗提取物在 2mg/mL 时对α-葡萄糖苷酶抑制作用的效果最强,为 96.09%。生物活性导向分离得到了 5 种化合物,通过光谱技术鉴定为东莨菪素()、丁香酸()、甲基 3-甲基-2-丁烯酸酯()、阿魏酰酪胺()和 咖啡酰酪胺()。化合物 、 、 对 α-葡萄糖苷酶的 IC 分别为 110.97、29.87 和 0.92μg/mL,而阳性对照阿卡波糖的 IC 为 272.72μg/mL。动力学研究表明,化合物 表现为混合抑制机制,而化合物 和 表现为非竞争抑制机制。对接研究提供了从墙藤中分离得到的芳香化合物(、、和 )与α-葡萄糖苷酶相互作用的分子理解。因此,本研究将首次报道从墙藤中分离得到的化合物及其抗α-葡萄糖苷酶活性及其作用机制。因此,这些活性化合物将进一步研究,作为天然抗糖尿病药物的先导化合物。