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2,3/1,10-seco, 3-nor guaianolide-type sesquiterpenoids and their derivatives with hypoglycemic activity from Achillea alpina
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  • Gui-Min Xue,
  • Chen-Guang Zhao,
  • Jin-Feng Xue,
  • Jiang-Jing Duan,
  • Hao Pan,
  • Xuan Zhao ,
  • Zhi-Kang Yang,
  • Hui Chen,
  • Yan-Jun Sun,
  • Wei-Sheng Feng
Gui-Min Xue
Henan University of Chinese Medicine

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Chen-Guang Zhao
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Jin-Feng Xue
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Jiang-Jing Duan
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Hao Pan
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Xuan Zhao
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Zhi-Kang Yang
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Hui Chen
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Yan-Jun Sun
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Wei-Sheng Feng
Henan University of Chinese Medicine
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Abstract

Eleven new seco-guaianolide sesquiterpenoids (111) 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 13 represented three unique 2,3-oxygen inserted guaianolides and 48 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 118, 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.