2,3/1,10-seco, 3-nor guaianolide-type sesquiterpenoids and their
derivatives with hypoglycemic activity from Achillea alpina
Abstract
Eleven new seco-guaianolide sesquiterpenoids (1–11)
and two new guaianolide dimers (12 and 13), along with
five known guaianolide derivatives were isolated from the aerial part of
Achillea alpina L. Compounds 1–3 represented
three unique 2,3-oxygen inserted guaianolides and 4–8
were five special 3-nor guaianolide sesquiterpenoids. Compounds 9–11
were three novel 1,10-seco-guaianolides, while 12 and 13 were two novel
1,10-seco-guaianolides involved heterodimeric [4 + 2] adducts. The
new structures of 1–13 including their absolute configurations were
determined by spectroscopic data analysis, combined with quantum
electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. To evaluate the
hypoglycemic activity of 1–18, glucose consumption
was used to investigate in palmitic acid (PA)-mediated HepG2-insulin
resistance (IR) cells, and compound 9 displayed the strongest reversal
IR activity. A mechanistic study has revealed that the potential
compound 9 appeared to be mediated hypoglycemic activity via inhibition
of the ROS/TXNIP/NLRP3/caspase-1 pathway.